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ROTC is open to freshmen and sophomores without obligation and requires about five hours per week. Register this term for an Army ROTC elective. Sign up for MS 121 today. Call CPT Rich Lewis at 346-ROTC. E-mail: army@oregon.uoregon.edu l^XCEUJNCtJ ARMY ROTC THE SMARTEST COLLEGE COURSE YOU CAN TAKE _ * ISK 4* „ | yy-' Advertise in the ODE Classifieds today! Health Plan Continued from Page 1 dependent policies. Only 12 percent of the GTFs en roll spouses or dependents, which accounts for 80 percent of the cost of this plain. The ratio of single GTFs to those with depen dents is unavailable. Dropping coverage because there is a majority of single, healthy members, would result in a “death spiral” of the plan ac cording to Mel Smith, an insur ance expert hired by the GTFF. This term means that “the higher the premium dependents have to pay, only the people that will ben efit will enroll,” said Carol Adam son, GTFF benefits administrator. Premiums will therefore con tinue to rise, resulting in the death of insurance coverage altogether. If this happens, the pool of GTFs would drastically shrink, Adam son said. “Some of the most-qualified students wouldn’t go here — they would be forced to drop out or be replaced” because they couldn’t survive without health insurance, Pendleton said. “This plan is cost effective,” Prew said. “I think it’s an invest ment really—in the recruitability of GTFs and the University [in general]. It’s stable, sturdy and very usable.” The GTFF proved how much they value health-insurance ben efits Friday by volunteering to sacrifice wages to get it. The latest proposal was identi cal to the one in June, but with the inclusion of a suggested maxi mum one-percent yearly pay in crease in order “to create addi tional funding,” Pendleton said. “We are willing to sacrifice down the road.” The new proposal also shows how much the GTFF “empathizes with the financial constraint” of the University, said Yaju Dhar marajah, GTFF vice president for University relations and part of the negotiation team. However, medical coverage “ [The University budget] is a scary situation. Optimism about Legislative contribution is drastically down. ** Marian Friestad Graduate school dean will remain one of its two utmost concerns. “I know of two things [the GTFs] will strike on: health insur ance and tuition wavers,” Dhar marajah said. If a strike did occur, nearly 30 percent of the University’s class es, including labs and discussion sections, would not be taught, he said. “I do believe that we should continue to maintain the same coverage the GTFs have had in the past,” Friestad said. It costs $90.12 to cover a single GTF per month, according to the new rates. To comply with the term-plus-one-month-plan, the University would have to pay close to the equivalent of the fami ly rate for everybody, Friestad said. This means $526 per term during the regular school year and $395 in the summer. Friestad and Zunich did admit, however, that they “were sur prised by the broadening of the scope to look at” in the new pro posal. To make matters worse, the University is currently in a $7 million deficit. “It’s a scary situation,” Friestad said. “Optimism about Legislative contribution is drastically down.” A solution was not achieved Friday, but both sides are commit ted to resolving the issue before fall term. The next meeting is scheduled for July 23. IntroDUCKtion Continued from Page 1 wanted at least one fun class.” IntroDUCKtion, facilitated by the University Offices of Orienta tion, Academic Advising and Ad missions is in its 26th year of making the transition into college a little easier for students, as well as for parents. Orientation staff member Erica Munson said because some par ents have a difficult time adjust ing to their children leaving for college, an important element of the program focuses on talking to parents and easing their varied concerns. “We get together with them, separate from the kids, and talk to them about letting go,” Munson said. “We even recommend a book on the subject called ‘Letting Go’ and find that it’s really help ful.” Having attended IntroDUCK tion herself as a freshman, Mun son said an orientation like this gives new students an opportuni ty to make friends, set-up room mates for the residence halls and “get the inside scoop on what col lege life is all about.” Joe Wade, director of Acade mic Advising, said 380 stu dents participated in this, the second session of IntroDUCK tion, and that a one-day pro gram tailored specifically for transfer students will take place Wednesday. Of the 3,100 new students ad mitted this fall, 1,573 of them are residents of Oregon. (( We’ve enhanced scholarship programs this year, and it really has enticed a lot of Oregon high school students to take a look at the school. ^ Joe Wade Director of Academic Advising Wade said in-state enroll ment is “creeping back up” during the last few years, in part because neighboring states have improved their own school systems, which keeps students in Washington or Cali fornia from moving and paying higher out-of-state fees. But it is also due to the University im proving access to higher educa tion in Oregon. “We’ve enhanced scholarship programs this year, and it really has enticed a lot of Oregon high school students to take a look at the school,” Wade said. The mean high school GPA of incoming freshman is 3.34, and 481 new students are in the top 10 percent of their grad uating classes. The top five de clared majors are, in order: un decided, pre-business, pre-journalism, pre-psycholgy and biology.
