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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Like an army defeated, the snow hath retreated.”
Wednesday, February 16,2005 University Press Page 2
— William Wordsworth
INSURANCE
SHOOTING
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the potential added costs,” said Jim
Mitchell, director of student health
services at Montana State Univer-
sity, which has required insurance for
nearly 20 years. “But there’s com-
pelling reasons to do it.”
More schools have started man-
dating the coverage in the past four
years. Hospitals no longer absorb the
costs because of increasing health
care expenses.
The University of Connecticut,
Ohio State University and all 10
schools within the University of
California system now require
health insurance.
The University of Utah is look-
ing into it.
Others, including Old Domin-
ion, Kent State University and South
Dakota’s board of regents, have
decided against the idea.
Costs vary from campus to cam-
pus — undergraduates at UCLA
paid $558 for a full year, the price is
$1,211 this year at the University of
Toledo, where insurance is required.
Yet, some schools have resisted
mandatory coverage, fearing extra
costs will push students to other col-
leges.
Still, others worry students
already are burdened with huge
loans and rising tuition.
“We may be pricing students
out of college,” said Alex Wright,
president of the student government
at Bowling Green State University.
The costs to uninsured students
can be staggering when they’re hos-
pitalized.
For example, a student at Old
Dominion University, in Norfolk,
Va., had $100,000 in medical bills
stemming from injuries in a car acci-
dent, said Jenny Foss, director of stu-
dent health services.
“Students can take care of their
car repairs, but they may not be able
to take care of their injuries,” she
said.
In extreme cases, the student is
forced to declare bankruptcy.
Allowing students to decide
whether they want health insurance
can dilute a school’s health plan
when few buy into it. Often, Foss
said, it’s mainly students with health
problems that purchase coverage,
driving up the number of claims and
costs.
Old Dominion discontinued its
health insurance plan a year ago -
only 400 of its 20,000 students were
using it. That’s despite a school sur-
vey that showed about 4,000 stu-
dents had no health coverage.
Glenn Egelman, director of stu-
dent health at Bowling Green, noted
that something as common as an
appendicitis could result in a big
medical bill.
“It can happen to anyone, at any
time, and it can definitely happen to
young people,” he said.
“We see students who have to
leave school because of something
that can’t be predicted.”
Students without coverage also
think they can get what they need at
campus health centers, which often
offer free, but limited, care.
“It’s a safety net, but it’s a net
with a lot of holes in it,” Egelman
said.
Nearly all private colleges make
health coverage mandatory, com-
pared with about 25 percent of pub-
lic colleges, said Stephen Beckley,
who runs a Colorado-based consult-
ing firm that assists schools with stu-
dent health programs.
Unpaid medical bills were a
problem at Ohio State’s medical cen-
ter before the school changed its pol-
icy three years ago.
In one year, the school found
uninsured students owed $600,000,
said Ted Grace, director of student
health services.
“It made it very easy to make
that decision,” he said.
tion with the April 1999 shooting,” he
said.
Bonelli, of nearby Saugerties,
was being held without bail in the
county jail after being arraigned
overnight on first- and second-degree
assault and reckless endangerment
charges.
If convicted, Bonelli could face
25 years in prison for the most seri-
ous charge, first-degree assault.
A woman answering the phone
at Bonelli’s father’s house declined
to comment.
The public defender assigned to
Bonelli did not immediately return a
call seeking comment.
According to police, Bonelli
opened fire walking into the Best
Buy store in the mall, just outside
Kingston, about 55 miles south of
Albany.
After firing several shots, he
made his way into the mall corridor
and continued shooting until running
out of ammunition near the center
court, witnesses said.
The wounded included a
National Guard recruiter who was in
a booth inside the mall when he was
shot.
State police Capt. Wayne Olson
said the 20-year-old man might lose
his leg.
Hospital officials said Monday
that his family asked that no infor-
mation on his condition be released.
The second victim, a 56-year-old
man, had superficial gunshot wounds
to his left arm, thigh and leg, Olson
said.
Two other people had bullet
holes in their pant legs, Olson said.
“We consider it fortunate that
more people were not struck,” Olson
said. “Sunday afternoon in a crowded
mall, it really has all the potential in
the world to be a disaster.”
A mall worker, Keith Lazarchik,
said Monday he made a “split-second
decision” to follow the gunman.
MILLER
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of a Salesman” in 1949, when he was just 33 years old.
His marriage to Marilyn Monroe in 1956 further cata-
pulted the playwright to fame, although that was publicity
he said he never pursued.
In a 1992 interview with a French newspaper, he called
her “highly self-destructive” and said that during their
marriage, “all my energy and attention were devoted to
trying to help her solve her problems. Unfortunately, I did-
n’t have much success.”
“Death of a Salesman,” which took Miller only six
weeks to write, earned rave reviews when it opened on
Broadway in February 1949, directed by Elia Kazan.
The story of Willy Loman, a man destroyed by his own
stubborn belief in the glory of American capitalism and
the redemptive power of success, was made into a movie
and staged all over the world.
“I couldn’t have predicted that a work like ‘Death of a
Salesman’ would take on the proportions it has,” Miller
said in 1988. “Originally, it was a literal play about a literal
salesman, but it has become a bit of a myth, not only here
but in many other parts of the world.”
In 1999,50 years after it won the Tony Award as best
play, “Death of a Salesman” won the Tony for best revival
of the Broadway season. The show also won the top acting
prize for Brian Dennehy, who played Loman.
Miller, then 83, received a lifetime achievement award.
SIMON
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what is going on with the patient. The students then have
to respond back like they would in a real patient, she said.
“They (the students) have to give the manikin med-
ication in the TV. And if they give it too fast, I can make the
reactions that could happen,” she said. “ I can make its
heart rate go very slow. The students can see direct reac-
tions to their actions.”
“It is important to have the simulations so that the
students can practice within the environment, so that
when they go to the hospitals they can feel safe,” Elieen
Deges Curl, chairperson and professor, said.
“We purchased the manikin in the fall semester and
this is the first class to be using it,” Curl said.
“The manikin cost about $48,000, and part of it was
donated by the Edna Horn Gay family and part of it was
bought out of HEAF funds, which are funds that the state
provides.” she said.
Curl said that in the future there are plans for an
advanced skills lab where other manikins will be located.
The manikin has a name because of a competition
that the students from the nursing department held.
“Approximately 75 names or more were submitted
and students from all levels (associate programs and bach-
elor’s programs) had an opportunity to name him.
“The name that was chosen was Simon for male and
Simone for the female,” Chisholm said.
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