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HILLARY Continued From Page 1 plan, came to hear Clinton speak "We're here to give support to Hillary because the program we're in transitions us off welfare and we'll have to pay for health care ourselves." said EaTonva Alexander, who is part of PIVOT, a Portland program for young mothers that includes vocation al training Jon Haines, a disabled bluecol lar worker from Portland, said he also supported the plan. At the foundation of our democracy ts health care secu rity. It's what people do. They're born, they live, they die. they have babies in between." Haines said. “As for Clinton's plan, at least he had a plan. There was no oth er option until the president went out on a limb." he said. Others were less supportive, such Merlin Egan, of United We Stand America, a group that first formed to support Ross Perot in his bid for the presidency. "Universal health ( are can't tie implemented any more than you can make one pair of shoes to fit everyone.” he said "We should implement health care systems that fit sinnll geographic areas first." Egan said that the group sup ported health care reform, but wanted to "let the people know there's other feelings besides sup port for this program.” Other opponents of the plan were wearing red, white and blue T-shirts with the "Top 10 reasons why government-run health (.are is a BAD idea” printed on the *At V 80101 inmmO First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks before a raucous crowd at Portland's Pioneer Square on Friday hack. These included reason number night, "It would confirm that the certain things in life are indeed taxes and death in that order." number two. "Mental illness l>en efits do not extend to congres sional voting disorders." and number three, "Post offii e ser vice at Pentagon prices Russ Willison of Portland, who was wearing one of the shirts, said the health care plan would take rights away from people "The health can* plan is some thing that would wipe out a lot of small businesses because it's lack of choice," he said Clinton followed a succession of other speakers, including Port land mayor Vera hat/. U S Rep resentatives Ron VVyden and Peter Do Fazio and Hat hoi Caruthers. a tfi-ytwr old junior til Aloha High School who talked alxnit what it was liko to be unin sured She and lior tnothor both have epilepsy 1'ho younger Qiruthers was also diagnosed with cancer of the nervous system After her father was laid off from his job, the family lost its health insurance, and was unable to find another insurant e plan because both Rachel and her mother had pre-existing health problem* She and her mother are now covered In Medicaid, but should her mother liegm working, which she hopes to do, Medit aid will no longer apply "Th« reason why I'm here is because I know sti many people who are unable lo get insurance .mil the public needs to know that wh havtt to do something, because everyone deserves to have insurance.” she said. Clinton began her spent It by thanking the state of Oregon for being a leader in health t tire reform. "It is this state which ret tig to/od tedorti the federal govern ment that if you did not insure everyone,” she said, "if you did not guarantee that all citizens had insurance, then no citizen was secure and there was no wav to control the costs of health care " She saiti that regardless of a person's fiat kground or beliefs. every American should he guar •intend health care as a right. “I know there an nurses in this crowd w ho are tired of sending their time on paperwork, and want to take care of patients for a change, and there are doctors m this grouo who went to mod* ical school because they want ed to take care of fieuplo and use their skills ami education to heal, anil what thev do now is spend their time hassling with insur ant e companies to get jwrmivsion to treat their own patients." She said the Ixittom line had to t*> guarantixxl insuram e and that financing had to lie provided for the guarantixxi insurance as well. Clinton saul the economic rea sons for guaranteeing health insurance included savings for the government and for people who are paving for health insur ance now "Wo will also be able to say we have done the right thing lx*ause it's a question ol six ml justice as well, and it is also a moral issue for our country,” sin- said "It may he possible for some members of Congress who know what the right thing is to turn their l>a< ks on doing it bei ause thev can't stand the (xilitical heat That may he possible, hut if we work hard enough in the next few weeks, it will he extremely uni mu fort able to do "Bet ause if we make it clear that It's real people's lives, it's the future of this country, it's is o nominally, six ioliv and morally the right thing to do. then anyone who votes against universal < ov erage is not just casting an easy vote to get out of a political dilemma, hut is going to have to txi held at countable for that kind of vote HOOD Continued From Page 1 runs up the northern fare next to the glacier. Some people just drive to the end of a dirt road and start walking, equipped with nothing more than the shoes on their feet. They head for the snow, another 3.000 feet up. On HI tot Glacier, where the four hikers fell Satur day. proper equipment is needed even in the (test con ditions. None of the group used ice axes or t rainpons, spikes worn on the feet. "That’s why accidents happen," said Chris Pappas, a 30-year-old mountain enthusiast staying at Timber line Lodge, a ski resort on the other side of Mount Hood "People go out without any training and with out tint proper equipment." The bodies of the two victims — 16-year-old Ole Groupe and 51-year-old Gerald K. Milton — were recovered Sunday. Their companions were in fair condition today. Croupe’s stepfather, Mathew Hunt. 30, suffered a bro ken arm. severe bruises and a scalp cut. Peter Monte, 36, had minor injuries HIKE Continued From Page 1 only ii portion of a studont's total tuition bill and might b« thought of as the money used to pay for classes. A student's tuition hill, then, not only includes the instructional fee. but incidental fees, a health insurant n fee, a resourt e/technology fee and a building fee Linder the proposed plan, resident undergraduate students who art* pay ing $1086 a term for tuition this fall can expect to pay about $1160 per term starting next fall and $124.! the year after, providing the only increase is in the instructional fee. Under those same conditions, resi dent graduate students, who will pay $1645 a term this fall, may have to pay about $1770 per term after the first increase and $1006 [x>r term after the second Nonresident undergraduates also fin e ii slight per-year tuition increase under this proposal of 1 percent. as compared to a to peri out ini rouse at OSU and an H percent increase at oilier state schools, including I’SU. Nonresident undergraduate tuition is $1590 a term, starting this fall With the first I percent increase, it will lie ntioul S IMM), and with the sis ond, $ 1793, if there ore no other tee increases Nonresident graduate students innv find their instructional fee increased by us much as 1H percent per year at the University. Assuming no increase in other fees, these students, who are now paying approximately $2453 in tuition per term, will pay about $3060 after the first increase and $3565 after the sec ond. The large increase in nonresident graduate tuition is because nonresi dent undergraduates currently have higher tuition than graduates, and it should tie the other wav around, llirtg Mid. However, Kd Dennis, the field director for the Oregon Student Lobby, said these tuition increases may not be ns large as projected "Revenue pro pH lions are much higher than expected," Dennis said, referring to profits from the lottery and stale taxes, both income and properlv Dennis also said that tuition increases may also depend on what state ballot measures are passed in the Noverntier election, lex atise some measures, for example, the crime related ones, will cost money to implement This year's tuition costs reflect a 7 percent increase for resident under graduate students and a 15 percent increase for resident graduate stu dents and nonresident undergraduate students r a Donate Blood Make a DIFFERENCE! Blood Donors URGENTLY needed. Be a volunteer donor. 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