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Students living in the North Campus townhouses will now have access to Wi-Fi. | Page 3
Looking for fine dining? Madeline’s is worth splurging on, the dining section says. | Page 8
The men’s tennis team was joined by an intercontinental addition this year. | Page 16
C.U.Warns Int’l Students About Inadequate Insurance Many bought plans that didn’t cover health costs
By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer
Cornell officials are warning international students about purchasing health insurance plans from misleading companies that have previously left some students unable to pay for their health care expenses. Last year, “a considerable number of international students” purchased insurance plans that were made to look as if they were Cornell’s student health plan, according to Craig McAllister, director of Risk Management and Insurance and chair of the Student Insurance Advisory Committee. Some insurance companies even offered a $50 rebate for students who signed on and were able to convince a peer to purchase the plan, McAllister said. Although the companies described their plans as being comprehensive and affordable, “students with the plan ended up having unexpected health care costs, including out-ofpocket expenses and difficulty accessing services,” McAllister said. “This was problematic, as the plan did not actually provide coverage meeting Cornell criteria,” he added. Because a significant number of students bought these plans, McAllister said that, this year, the committee sent out an email warning international students of such companies in the hopes that it could help “spare international students and others looking at online
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Staying healthy | Many students go to Gannett Health Services and use the University’s student health and insurance plan to help pay for their health care costs.
plans this unfortunate and costly experience.” “This is the first time an alert went out this wide,” said student insurance administrator Jo Ann Molnar-Kieffer, a member of the University’s Student Insurance Advisory Committee. Although students who reside in the United States may already have insurance or are covered by their family’s insurance, most international students must choose their U.S. See INSURANCE page 4
Tickets for Ke$ha Sell Out in Hours pated high traffic and dedicated an entire server to ticket sales, Schwartz said. One of the students iniStudent tickets for pop artist Ke$ha’s Sept. 29 perfor- tially left disappointed by mance at Cornell sold out Wednesday morning’s ticket within hours Wednesday sales was Jackie Yang ’16, who morning — leaving some stu- said she was upset when she dents victorious and other saw a status saying tickets had sold out. diehard fans disappointed. “I made it a point to get to Approximately 4,000 tickets were sold between 9 a.m., class early so that I could grab a seat and get when tickets my Ke$ha tickwent on sale, ets, but as soon and about as I logged into 11:30 a.m., the website, it when the last said it was sold student ticket out,” she said. was sold, For Yang, according to persistence Peter Schwartz paid off. She ’14, executive continued to director of the KE$HA refresh the Cornell Conwebsite for 15 minutes while cert Commission. High traffic on the ticket taking notes in class to see if sales website — which is tickets were still available — managed by the University — and then saw she was able to caused problems for some buy a ticket. “By that point, I felt pretusers. Some students were met with websites that loaded ty pathetic, but it was worth too slowly, while others ran it,” Yang said. “Hopefully, the into a status on the website concert will be worth it, too.” Another student, Hannah saying the tickets were sold out when they were not, Dorsey ’16, was also affected by the website’s slow load according to Schwartz. These problems arose even See KE$HA page 5 though the University antici-
By TYLER ALICEA
Former governor of Florida | Jeb Bush, brother of former president George W. Bush, will speak about current challenges in education, including rising tuition at colleges and universities. JENN ACKERMAN / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Jeb Bush, SUNY Leader to Speak at C.U. Bush, Zimpher will discuss higher education in America By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer
Nearly a year after bringing former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul to campus, the Cornell Republicans announced Wednesday that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Nancy Zimpher, chancellor of the State University of New York, will speak at Cornell in October. Titled “What do we do now?
Education in America,” the Oct. 24 event will be sponsored by the Cornell Republicans and moderated by President David Skorton. “The Cornell Republicans wanted to have an event dealing with education just because it’s so relevant to everyone at Cornell,” said Jessica Reif ’14, chairmanemeritus of the Cornell Republicans. “This is policy that is extremely important in our lives as students.”
According to Reif, the event will begin with a keynote address from Bush at 5:30 p.m., followed by a panel discussion with Bush and Zimpher. The higher education-based discussion will focus on the mounting cost of college, according to Kyle Ezzedine ’14, chairman of the Cornell Republicans. “Student debt is really a growSee EDUCATION page 5
Sun Senior Writer