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Health Plan
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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.
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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.