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VM. 81, No. 31
Survey: Many students uninsured
Student health insurance mandatory in more colleges; not Lamar
UP and Wire reports
TOLEDO, Ohio — A growing
number of public universities are requir-
ing that students have health insurance
before they step into the classroom, a
move aimed at saving the uninsured
from huge bills and college hospitals
from getting stuck with the cost.
Most public universities, like Lamar,
still leave the decision up to students,
who can buy into a school’s student
health care plan or obtain their own
insurance.
However, surveys from insurers and
schools indicate that anywhere from 10
percent to 30 percent do not have insur-
ance. Most are still covered under their
parents’ plans.
Barry Johnson, vice president of stu-
dent affairs, said that Lamar is not cur-
rently looking into making student insur-
ance mandatory.
Johnson said that most Lamar stu-
dents already have home policies
through their family, but that Lamar does
make student insurance readily available.
“We leave that up to the students,”
Johnson said. “We do give them the
option to get insurance through the uni-
versity.”
Johnson said the university has
insurance available if students want it. It
is strictly a service the university pro-
vides rather than a requirement, Johnson
said.
International students, however,
must obtain insurance through the uni-
versity, Johnson said.
College officials also are finding that
some students are forced to drop out
when faced with the medical expenses.
“What makes it a tough decision is
See INSURANCE, page 2
Simon says, ‘Check
my blood pressure’
By ANNIE ZARZOSA
UP Staff Writer
The nursing department has a manikin, but it’s not like
any other manikin. It is a high-tech manikin that was pur-
chased recently and can simulate different diseases.
“It’s limited to our imagination because if I know the
symptoms of the disease, then I can simulate that. All the
disease process is a combination of symptoms,” Leann
Chisholm, instructor for the nursing department, said.
This is possible by telling the student the proper infor-
mation.
“First, (I) explain what is going on, what his back-
ground information is. I tell the students his heart rate and
breathing. Then the students have to draw a picture of what
is going on with the client,” she said.
The manikin does different things. It all depends what
the person wants it to do and the proper tools.
“We can start an IV and give medication, and we also
have a monitor. This is like the one they use in hospitals. We
can look at his heart rhythm, oxygen levels, breathing rate
and blood pressure.... We can cause his monitor to go to
abnormal rhythm,” Chisholm said.
“He can have a pulse in his bronchial artery (where the
arm is), carotid (where the neck is) and his legs. We can
manually check blood pressure. He can breathe...and I can
control it all from up here (a computer screen that shows
what the manikin is doing and his controls),’’Chisholm said.
This is important for the students to see because the
students will have to react, and then they have to access
See SIMON, page 2
UPMike Tobias
The nursing department has a new state-of-the-art manikin that serves a multitude of training problems. The stu-
dents have named him Simon when being used as a male and her Simone when she is being used as a female.
17-year-old
intruder
kills teacher
at school
The Associated Press
OSAKA, Japan —. A 17-year-
old boy intruded into the elemen-
tary school he graduated from in
Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, on
Monday afternoon, and stabbed a
male teacher to death with a kitchen
knife and left two female staff mem-
bers seriously injured, police said.
Michiaki Kamozaki, 52, died in
hospital, the police and emergency
medical care center officials said.
Mizue Tomomura, 57, also a
teacher at the school, and Akemi
Fukushima, a 45-year-old dietician,
were both seriously injured with
stab .wounds to the belly, they said.
No pupils at Neyagawa Muni-
cipal Chuo Elementary School were
harmed in the incident that took
place shortly after 3 p.m.
The boy was standing in the
teachers’ office in the school with a
kitchen knife with a 21.5-centimeter-
long blade when he was arrested.
He has not given a motive for
the attack, they said.
The boy, who lives in the city,
apparently asked Kamozaki for the
way to the teachers’ office when the
victim was talking with a teacher of
a disabled children’s class in the cor-
ridor on the first floor, the police
said.
Kamozaki was believed to have
been showing the boy the way to the
teachers’ office when he was
stabbed, they said. The stab wound
reached from the back to heart, they
said.
Gunman in N.Y. mall
shooting had fixation
with Columbine tragedy
By MICHAEL HILL
The Associated Press
KINGSTON, N.Y. - A man
who opened fire in a crowded
shopping mall with an assault
weapon, wounding two, seemed
to have a “lurid fascination” with
the Columbine High School
shooting, a prosecutor said Mon-
day.
Robert Bonelli, 24, is accused
of wounding two people and
sending shoppers scurrying for
safety Sunday after shooting his
way into the Hudson Valley Mall,
then giving up when he ran out of
ammunition.
Police searching the suspect’s
room in nearby Saugerties that
night found a cache of “Colum-
bine memorabilia,” Ulster County
District Attorney Donald Wil-
liams told The Associated Press.
The prosecutor would not
detail what sort of items were
found in the house Bonelli shares
with his father, but said it includ-
ed media accounts and other
information about the Colorado
shooting spree by two students
that left 15 dead on April 20,1999.
“We may never know specifi-
cally what his intentions were, or
what his motivations were,”
Williams said. “However, we are
deeply disturbed and troubled by
the recovery of Columbine mem-
orabilia from his property.”
“Information is being gath-
ered that would demonstrate that
the defendant had a lurid fascina-
See SHOOTING, page 2
/
Death of a Playwright
Pulitzer-winning
Miller dies at 89 in his
home in Connecticut
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
The Associated Press
ROXBURY, Conn. -Ar-
thur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-
winning playwright whose most
famous fictional creation, Willy
Loman in “Death of a Sales-
man,” came to symbolize the
American Dream gone awry, has
died. He was 89.
Miller, who had been
hailed as America’s greatest liv-
ing playwright, died Thursday
night at his home in Roxbury of
congestive heart failure, his
assistant, Julia Bolus, said Fri-
day. She declined to give details
on his illness. His family was at
his bedside when he died, she
said.
His plays, with their strong
emphasis on family, morality
and personal responsibility,
spoke to the growing fragmen-
tation of American society.
“A lot of my work goes to
the center of where we belong
— if there is any root to life —
because nowadays the family is
broken up, and people don’t live
in the same place for very
long,” Miller said in a 1988
interview.
“Dislocation, maybe, is part
of our uneasiness. It implants
the feeling that nothing is really
permanent.”
Playwright Edward Albee
said Miller had paid him a com-
pliment, saying “that my plays
were ‘necessary.’ I will go one
step further and say that
Arthur’s plays are ‘essential.’”
Miller’s career was marked
by early success. He was award-
ed the Pulitzer Prize for “Death
See MILLER, page 2
Associated Press
Newlyweds Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller are shown after
their civil wedding ceremony in White Plains, N.Y., on June
29,1956.
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