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Health Committee enforces new Insurance guidelines
by Tom Morgan
Rice students must now have an
individual or family health
insurance policy that has a
deductible not greater than one
hundred and fifty dollars and no
less than eighty percent co-
insurance, according to the
Student Health Committee. If a
student's own policy does not meet
these minimum standards he will
have until October 15 to seek
additional coverage or he may
purchase the Keystone plan.
This policy, offered by the
Keystone Life Insurance Co. of
Carrollton, Texas, has a twenty-
five dollar deductible and one
hundred percent co-insuranc'e.
Bonnie Helium* —B. Davies
One twelve month policy costs
$200. The Keystone plan may be
purchased in the lobby of Allen
Center through Friday, August 29.
After this date, the plan is available
through Director of Student
Activities, Bonnie Heliums, at her
office in the Rice Memorial
Center.
The students not possessing
proper health insurance after
October 15 will have their
identification cards invalidated,
and thus will be unable to cash
checks at the cashier's office, pay
checks at the Rice Campus Store,
or attend Rice football games free.
There are currently some fifty
students with temporarily
validated identification cards
identified by an inscribed red "T"
on the back side.
The new university health
insurance policy was formulated
last year by the Student Health
Committee, a group of Rice
professors, students, and
administrators then headed by
anthropology professor Richard
Cushman. Heliums explains that
hospital emergency room
procedures forced the new policy.
Said Heliums, "If we find
someone lying in the grass
unconscious late at night, his
master must take him to an
emergency room. In such state the
student would not likely remember
his insurance policy number, and
hospitals demand payment in
some form upon entry. In many
cases in the past, faculty members
have paid the entry fee and then
have not been reimbursed by
students. A small deductible would
mean that the insurance company
would hive absorbed some of the
cost."
The deductible is the amount
below which a policy holder must
pay out of his pocket, and the co-
insurance percentage is the
maximum percentage of the bed-
patient hospital expense incurred
that the insurance company will
pay.
"Many people who were asked
to increase their insurance were
upset because they had two
hundred dollar deductibles, and
that's only fifty dollars above the
required amount."
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1HRESHER
Volume 68, number 4
Thursday, August 28, 1980
INSIDE:
• Playboy shoots Rice. Three
surviviors. Details, p. 5.
• New York, New York. On
Broadway for the plays and at
Museum for Picasso, p. 9-10.
• People to watch this year on the
playing fields and courts, p. 11.
Audit discovers inefficiencies in Rice Food Service
by Bruce Davies
A report filed by Rice's internal
auditor R.E. Montgomery, June 27
cites procedural inefficiency as a
cause for lost revenue in food
service. It was found that "the
Director and her secretary are
almost buried under a mountain of
paperwork," because "receiving
reports and invoices are not being
forwarded to the Comptroller's
Office."
The amount of money spent on
food last year can not be accurately
determined because the Food
Service has not used purchase
orders "for foodstuffs and
consumable supplies."
Two purchase orders used to
buy new toasters last year (a non-
food related item) were found to
be misleading: "Two consecutive
purchase orders were written on
the same day for $990.12 for 4
toasters each, causing it to appear
to be a ploy to avoid one purchase
order for over 51,000 — which
might require the signature of
a higher administrative officer —
and doubling the paper work on
what was really one transaction."
These were found when the
payments in the files in the
Comptroller's Office were checked
against the individual receiving
tickets and invoices in the Central
Kitchen files.
The report also cites the
headwaiters in the colleges as being
a cause for lost revenue. "Control
of meals served [in the colleges]
depends entirely on the integrity,
ability, and attention of the
Student IDs still
available Friday
Tomorrow is the last day to pick
up Identification cards at the
Campus Police Office in
Abercrombie Lab. Picture taking
was to have ended today but
administration officials decided to
extend the deadline until
tomorrow to allow students who
have not received their ID's to do
so. Undergraduates may obtain
cards from 1:00 to 5:00 pm or 7:00
to 9:00 pm. Graduate students
should obtain ID's between 8:30
« am and 12:00 noon.
headwaiters in each dining room,"
the report said. "No identification
was requested from anyone being
served in the meals we watched."
The need for picture I.D. cards
stems from resident students'
ability to give their I.D.'s to non-
resident students, who are then
able to "flash the I.D., and after a
few meals would be recognized as a
regular by that headwaiter, and
never be asked again for
identification during the entire
school year."
"The lists of those who eat in one
college and sign as a resident of
another are not cross-checked for
payment of board and room
charges," the report also said.
In addition to these procedural
problems, it was found that the
"cost of maintenance of residential
college lounges and commons were
being charged to Food Services
although these facilities do n5t
provide support to the food service
function."
Under the heading of
"Recommendations," the audit
urged for the use of purchase
orders in advance "for all
procurement (including food-
stuffs) except for valid
emergencies. Even then," the
report said, "a P.O. number should
be given when the phone request is
placed, and a confirming order
mailed to the vendor."
see Auditor, page 7
Food Service cook preparing breakfast
-Bruce Davies
Arson probable cause of Stadium fi
In a possible case of theft and
arson, a car was set afire under the
northwest side of Rice Stadium
early Sunday morning.
Heat from the fire was so intense
it caused a small dome to be
burned into the cement ceiling
immediately above the car, a red
1974 Monte Carlo.
According to Campus Police
Sergeant H. Kennedy, the fire was
first discovered at 9:18 a.m.
Sunday morning. The fire
apparently started on the dash and
front seat of the automobile. A can
of charcoal lighter was found on
the ramp above the site of the
blaze. Kennedy also stated that a
strong smell of fluid was present,
causing the Arson Division of the
Fire Department to be called in.
Campus Police Officer B.J.
Poole, who reported the fire,
stated that he was patrolling the
area by car when he spotted a
young white male near a vehicle
parked nose-first under the
northwest side of the stadium.
By the time he reached the scene,
Poole said, the car was already
ablaze.
Police say they have a good idea
of who the culprit is. They are
see Suspect, page 7
Advisor tells athletes to
skip English Comp test
m
Construction for the renovation of the architecture building, Anderson
Hall, now entering its fifth month is on schedule according to Architecture
Dean Jack Mitchell. The two-story steel frame for the new "Brochstein"
wing, named after financial contributors Mr. and Mrs. I.S. Brochstein, has
been set. If no delays are met, the renovation should be completed by
— Laura Rohwer
by Allison Foil
Due to a misunderstanding in
counseling, some freshman
football athletes failed to take the
English Competency Examination
during Freshman Week this year.
"The kids did nothing wrong,"
said Mark Bockeloh, Academic
Advisor for Athletes. "I knew
some of them had said they really
wanted to take a composition
course, English 103, which is only
required if a person fails the
English Competency Test, so I sort
of let them believe that they didn't
have to take the test."
Some ol the athletes who were
planning to bypass the English
Competency Exam were steered to
the test by their student advisors,
but a few, "less than five," said
Bockeloh, skipped the test, and
allowed themselves to be enrolled
in the English 103 "Remedial
English" course.
The students who neglected to
take the competency exam will be
allowed to take the test soon, said
Dr. David Minter, chairman of the
English department.
"It was my misunderstanding
purely misguidance on mv part,"
said Bockeloh. "The biggest
problem is that when I do
something wrong it reflects on the
kids. It's tough trying to
coordinate the freshman athletes in
with the faculty and student
advisors in course selection," he
said.
According to Minter, it is not
unusual for students to be advised
not to take the exam. "Other
students have been told by faculty
and student advisors not to take
the test—transfer students,
students with advanced placement
in English, students who move
onto campus after the English
Competency Exam has been given.
They take the test later. That is
what happened in this case too,"
he said.
"He (Bockeloh), didn't
understand that the test was a
university requirement," Minter
added. We use ittto locate the
students who need to be in 103.
The essays are also used as a
see Five, page 7
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1980, newspaper, August 28, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245444/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.