Oregon Daily
THURSDAY. MAY 25,1995
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 96. ISSUE 161
Students
leave office,
remember
highlights
ASUO: Leslie Warren,
Mark Rhinard say that
they’ve accomplished
most of their goals
Amy Columbo and
Patrick Mtnford
Oregon Da>ty trrmtmi
With n few handshakes, pats
on the back and a hug or two the
ASUO president and vice presi
dent stepped out ol the offic e
Wednesday, never to return, .it
least not in an official capacity
It marked the exit of Leslie
Warren and Mark Rhinard from
tiie hot seats in the ASUO Kxtx
utive. After a year of turbulence
and triumph, both said they are
ready to mm (Ton.
Warren plans to go to to i lavvaii
to relax and Rhinard plans to take
some time off to work on Ins
Honors College thesis it will lie
a welcome change of pace from
the hectic, demanding schedule
that kept them in the spotlight
"24 hours a day. seven days a
week," Warren said.
Behind the scenes
A lot of what students don't
understand is the work the pair
put in behind the scenes writing
memos and meeting with stu
dents, administrators and com
munity members, Rhinard said.
A lot of this |ub is trying to cut
■
with the bureaucracy, deuling
with tin1 red tape, pushing
paper." Rhinard said.
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ASUO President Leslie Warren and Vice President Mark Rhlnard celebrate with a pihata
during an party marking the end of their tenure
Deductible
eliminated
in center’s
new policy
Insurance: II c art - is received
oft campus the $200 deductible
must still be paid
Mara Stine
Ontgcft O&fy
Hie .$,£00 deductible from the current
student insurant e polit y will lx> elimin.it
ml this fall and a new policy has been
developed, a University Student Health
Center official said
Hie deductible will be eliminated only if
students are treated at the health t enter,
said Hoh Petit, rnedii al administrator
tf t are i-. received off campus, the $„'()(>
deductible must still he paid before the
insurance company will pay 70 pen out of
the bill This is true even in an emergent v
or if the student is referred off campus by
the health i enter, said Debbie Alley. insur
ance coordinator.
A tledm tihle is the amount ptiiti before
the insurance will pay its share of the bill
At the University, the polo v holder pays
the remaining 30 percent,
"During the last couple of years. HO per
cent of the claims filed with insurant e
companies are from serve r* received from
the Student Health Center. Alley said
"On any given night there is at least one
Istudentl who ends up at Sat.red Heart
((.eneriiH Hospital," Alley said
Students with the new pole y who go to
doctors off i am pus must go to preferred
providers, who are doctors and hospitals
under contract with an insurance company
to provide health < lire at lower i osts, Alley
said. !n addition, only services covered by
the polit \ will he paid by the insurance
company.
Alley cautioned students to knoyv what
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Morning after pill’ available
at Student Health Center
Treatment: Many students
may not know that the
contraceptive is an option
Regina Brown
The morning after pill can prevent
pregnancy when other methods of con
traception fail or when couples have
unprotected sex. said University Student
Health Center nurse Colleen Jones
The morning after pill — or emer
gency contraception, as the health cen
ter calls it — can lie taken within 72
hours after having unprotected sex. she
said.
(ones emphasized that emergency
contraception is different from KU 48t>,
a drug that induces abortion.
I mergeni % * ontnw option treatments
are given in a series of pills. They con
tain the hormones estrogen and proges
terone. which can dtday ovulation,
prevent fertilization or prevent a fertil
ized egg from embedding itself in the
uterine lining. Jones said.
These hormones are the same ones
used in birth i ontrol pills, hut are given
in higher doses m emergency < tint recep
tion treatments, she said
The health center usually prescribes
emergency contraception to women who
have unprotected sex around the time of
ovulation, but will give Ihe treatment to
any woman who believes she will
become pregnant.
It is taken twice at 12-hour intervals,
and can reduce the risk of pregnancy to
2 to .*> percent, she said.
(ones i ited statistii s saving that
nationally, emergency contraception
could cut the number of performed abor
tions in half. Higher awareness of the
treatment could greatly reduce the num
ber of unplanned pregnancies, she said.
"If |a student) doesn’t want to get an
abortion this would be a great way to
decrease that likelihood," she said.
Even if the treatments do not prevent
pregnancy, they are unlikely to harm the
fetus, she said.
The lusilth center has offered the treat
ments for at least 10 years, hut not many
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Pied piper
— - •.Tw7TT7nrr"»7
Shantl, a street musician, finds a place
to play at the foot of the Pioneer statue
■ GOOD MORNING
► WASHINGTON (APi It may be
comfy and 100 percent cotton, but under
wear bearing the text of the "Contra, t With
America" apparently rubs the Republican
National Committee the wrong way
Two New York artists who created lim
tied edition silk-screened undies with
House Speaker Newt Gingrich's face on
the front and all 10 points of the OOP's
agenda on the back have received a let
ter from the RNC threatening legal action
The tetter asks the artists to immedi
ately discontinue using the text in their
work and adds that "continued unautho
rized use by your company will force the
Republican National Committee to Like
the appropriate legal action ”
The Brooklyn, N Y , artists had 120
pairs silk-screened and enclosed a card
numbering each one. They sent 10 pairs,
run off as tests before the signed copies,
to various politicians, including Gingrich.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R
Kan , and President Clinton
No fans of the speaker, the artists
intend the underwear as a protesl against
the new Republican leadership in Con
gress They have started exhibits featur
ing the underwear — including one .n
which the underwear hung above piles of
dirty laundry.