Dental insurance plan offered to students
By M. Ekholm
Of The Print
In addition to having stu­
dent medical coverage this
year at Clackamas Communi­
ty College, a dental insurance
plan called Denti Plan is also
being offered.
One of the areas of respon­
sibility for Debbie Baker,
director of student activities, is
health services. “The College
has been hunting for the last
several years to come up with a
group health insurance plan,’’
Baker said. She explained the
dental insurance plan was first
discovered through a meeting
at the Community Colleges of
Oregon Association and Com-
missions (CCCOSAC), which
is a state student organization,
dent organization.
“I thought about the dental
plan for awhile but didn’t pay
too much attention, then I
asked the people who were
helping us get the group health
insurance plan if it was any
good. The hroker firm who
was helping us did about six
months of research on this
particular plan,” Baker said.
Nina Stratton, a represen­
tative from Cascade Employee
Benefits (CEB) Insurance is a
member of the brokerage firm
that assisted the College in
researching the dental plan.
“We conducted six months
research to be sure that Denti
Plan was the company to
recommend the Colleges,”
Stratton said. Research con­
sisted of attending meetings
dentists participating in the
plan went to, and contacting
between six and eight colleges
throughout the United States
who were already using the
plan.
The response from the par­
ticipating dentists and colleges
was very positive. Stratton
said Denti Plan has been in ex­
istence for 12 years and is now
operational in Oregon,
Washington, California,
Utah, Arizona, Colorado,
New Mexico, North Dakota,
Oklahoma,
Minnesota,
Virginia and Maryland. The
plan is also expanding in Kan­
sas, Iowa, Illinois and Penn­
sylvania.
After evaluating the
research information, the Col­
lege decided it was a good plan
that may help students interest
ed in having dental insurance.
Denti Plan brochures are
available to students at the stu­
dent activities counter in the
Community Center and the
health trailer near Randall
Hall.
The annual membership fee
for an individual is $39. For
this amount students can
receive a full-mouth x-ray,
oral examination and
diagnosis, teeth cleaning and
polishing, preventive dental
education and office visits. All
other items are offered at
reduced rates and are listed on
the dental plan’s enrollment
form.
Baker and Stratton both
stressed the fact that when
students sign up with this plan
they have to go to one of the
participating dentists listed in
the brochure. If a student has
a dentist they go to regularly,
they should check to find out
if he/she is a participant in the
Denti Plan. If the dentist is not
and the student would like to
participate in the plan, CEB
Insurance would like to ex­
plain the benefits of Denti
Plan by calling Stratton at
297-8161.
Students enrolling in the
plan will receive an identifica­
tion card within 20 days. They
may see a dentist 10 days after
filling out and mailing in the
enrollment card. Students do
not have to wait for their iden­
tification card to see a par­
ticipating dentist.
Students with additional
questions concerning the den­
tal plan can contact the Col­
lege’s Student Activities Office
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New senators begin work
By Amy LaBare
Of The Print
Ten students were chosen
last week to be Associated Stu­
dent Government (ASG)
Senators. The senators begar
work right away, attending a
retreat with the ASG Ex­
ecutive Council.
Denise Fragasso, Eric
Laitinen, Kelly O’Rourke,
Philip Smith and Mary Tar bet
are working with ASG Ac­
tivities Director Kay Brant.
Some of their goals set at their
retreat last weekend at
Menucha are to work well as a
group and to raise money for
activities through dinner
theaters, family movie even­
ings and dances. They also
plan to publish a calendar of
Wednesday, October 24, 1984
hours for the store’ and will
post them. Riback said she
feels that type of system would
work better and be more effi­
cient.
Aiding Debbie Cayton,
assistant to the president are
Rick Brown and Henry
Palacious. Their main job
duties will be on checking the
suggestion boxes around cam­
Becky Riback is . working pus and following through on
with Administrative Assistant these suggestions.
Beth Wilder in the ASG office
by typing, filing and doing
Vice Presidential Senators
necessary correspondence. are Cheryl Champlain and
Riback said the main goal Victor Price. These two
her and Wilder have set is to senators work with Shawnee
reorganize the bookmart. Christensen, ASG vice-
They plan on arranging it “as president, to keep the recrea­
a store instead of just at the
tion room in > order and to
counter, like it has been in the organize clubs, elections and
past,” Riback said. This next fall’s senate selection pro­
means they will set regular cess.
events for winter term, Eric
Laitenen, activities senator
said.
Brant said the retreat was
“great, very productive,” and
she also said she feels “really
confident that the senators
and executive council
members will work well
together.”
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