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Volume 1i1 N'umlici *
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■ A thrilling loss to Cal. Page 8
■ Women’s streak ends. Page 9
The debate over some form of mandators student
health insurance is reaching new levels Phil
Xeheryall has launched 'an attack on ISI (>
President Andy Clark's proposals.
Insurance uproar
comes to a head
15v Denise ( lit ton
Emerald Asmk iate Editor
The matter of student health
insurance probably i mild he
named the headache of the
I'lHM-'iU ,ii adetltu \ eat
1 list, students lai ed drasti
tally increased premium rates
in the [dan tillered by I lie I’m
dent i.d to and A SI ( ) at the
beginning of lail term
Then, in early Dei embei the
Student Health Insurant e (aim
mitten rei oiiiinended to the ati
ministration that students he
required In participate m a itttt
percent mandatora insurance
[in igi am
t he administration ret eiitlc
rejected this controversial pro
posal but Si lit . now is suggest
mg a plan that would make in
mg 1111• student plan without a
carrier
Hut I he lea si know n u nnkle
in the insurant e Issue I nine in
(lavs ego when a sjinup nl slu
denis i m ul,iled and then
withdrew a letter t ailing for
the reea II e|ei t it in i it \St ()
Piesident And\ I dark
Dated |an ..'tc tile letter was
signed In la students who
i laimed to he frustrated w itli
(dark's approach tu the msur
alH e Issue
The lettei addressed to
l dark, read in part. Based on
our understanding ot the AS! ( )
(amslitution we teel mu him
violated vuur inandale is an ad
\in ate ot the Students at the
tiuversiU o! Oregon dour
handling ot the AS! () Student
I lealth lnstiraiK e ( oiinmttee s
'Those students who choose not to have
insurance because they are too low
income to afford it are going to be priced
out of school'
Phil Nelwrgall
sura net* mandatory while giv
mg students a limited right of
waiver, the rood it ions o! w hit h
have not been determined
Moreover last week lie Pru
dent ial ( ai annouru ed it w as
pulling out oi tin* student
health insurant e market leav
it“s|>mis jin I il ifN .mil (it'c ismns
hav r mailt- .1 Him kfi \ i ii pm
dent sludfiit .11 t ion
lh*‘ lotter .uliiftl lhi«t slu
limits have not had adequate in
put m tin- insurani e process
and th.it (1,n k s I'lH'i intern
ship \\ ith Stair I at ill Insurani .
Iwis i re.iti’il ,t i until* t ut interest
with tin' insuraiu.e selei turn
prt m ess
t his along u it It yum advo
i in \ ut ,i mmuliituiA msimmct!
plan w ilhuut .i volt' of tin- stu
limits vuii an- supposed to In'
representing leave us no ulhei
Id. inrsi liul lu vr m k fui VUlll
remmnl Irolii ultii e tin- Iftim
mill hided
l l.ii k lias suit r entered into
Mu- \St () uu'ii Ml iuii |in igi.iin
u ith iht- Iflti'i wtileis' S| a ikis
man. graduate student Phil
Xehergall
t ins us all is nut a reflet
tiun ut flu' \S1 (i as a whole ui
I lie u ink that the e\ei lit i ve ha
dune in other areas this year
Whet gal! -'.ini in an interx iew
last week It s all altai k on
\11ci\ s polities on student in
suram e
Although I he rrc all iiiitialivr
was withdraw n (an i 1 thr
i untmumiH stnloinonls ihiil 11n-\
don ! u .ml mu h a plan has ho
t oiiio disturbing. \ol>or^.ill
said
A wo .m it And\ ('Ini k
I don't like that thrown out: ‘Well, I'm
a poor student and I can't afford it.' Thu
only reason it should be debated is on
principle alone and not on affordability'
— Andy Clark
tout orris that sparked i! an*
still ver\ much a part ut flu*
stucliMit health insurante issue
I ii.ii < ui ah* i epresent at inn
( lark s prrsistcnt advornt \
tor a mandators health m.sur
plan despite students
ant e
.ii hiii', as ASI ’() |in".ulrnl \\,!•
,nl\ i n at my ninndatoi \ insui
am r and u r tidt that u as i
. imt!n i id his mamlnti' as
\sl (I pn'Miii'nl bn ausc [stu
drills dun i want a mandating
lurn to Insurant i*, Paj*i* <>
f-rot; Iriiiht) Hints another i ustonwr tur the
"world's greatest joke hooks" th.it he sells on
l.lth Avenue.
Frog uses humor to send a message
Local figure finds humor in unlikely places
B\ Sam Nilverstein
I merald t ontributor
Frog'- Broun acid while wool cap 11.i^ a blue
enamel pin shaped like Saltern on the hum lies Ion.',
hair and heard surround a pair oi llm k glasses his
jeans suspenders and putlv down coal suggest some
i ounler i iillure i ourt jester
And as lie walks down I llh \venue selling what
he i alls the world’s greatest joke I.k it s t leaf
th.it itunii a is Ills trade
Hut I rog (a k a David Hems Milltti the nii k
name lirsl appealed in high si hoot and ae guesses it
has to do w ith Ins si rati by voii ei is out he insists not
lust to make .1 11 s 11.a I ■ it ai to make a point
People will listen to huiltui It makes you think
and sou rememher it loo Non might even repeal la
joke) a lot ot tunes d sou think it is espei mils hums
I rog says lie is concerned about "tile ens iton
ment. nuclear accidents, the cutting ot old grossth tor
esls " He also lists the Kiserhont researi h park and
the homeless as ssornes
At the mention ot homelessness I rog s < omit de
men not lades slightly I Se been homeless Indore I
have done it toi a ss illle so I knoss svhat it s like to lie I
lived on the streets ill Herkeles It’s hard to find a
jell I
lint he starts lo lighten up Ii wasn't like I u.u
In me iml mi the streets all the time I hail friends
It s nut nn llrst i Iihii e el something I want to
ilo lie tiiiishes, reluming to hio.nl grill
Ills sense ol luiinoi never tails him tor long It's
still easv lot me to he humorous. I log s.ivs who lie
si rilieil his lalhel as a Inn 11 |okeslei anil ilaillts to
have h.iil a gleal u 111 le ill V a 111 lev illi I ' III joke about
111V own situation and make It a little hettei tol me
l ing studied journalism at Ohio Iniversitv m
\thenS tol two veais 111 I'll... lie said lie got i atlght
up in the spirit ot the times and dei ideil it vv.is time
lot lav el and see the i on litrv
I mg tnsi iiiov ihI east lo \evv York ( itv where he
use tit 11' to pav tm an I as! Village apartment through
.1 SUCH essiun "i odd tolls and 1 a little panhandling
He then headed west to the San I ram 1st o liav aiea lie
tore entiling to I ugeiie in in '*
lie now rents a I aw rein e Street apartment and
earns his keep In selling his joke hooks and hanging
promotional posters tin WOW llall as well as lasing
i are ot the landlord s i hildreu m t asiolially
(•’rug published his Inst joke hook ill l'tftti at the
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