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Fulbright Scholar teaches language and culture of her home country
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Happy Halloween: it's time to pierce your lip and tattoo your face
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Necropolis: A look at Colorado boneyards
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The Enigma forces a McNlchols audience to appreciate their own normality at Jim Rose Circus Oct. 20. This tattooed creature lifted weights with his eyelids, ate broken glass and lit a cigarette In the sparks of a grinding wheel.
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Review of "Ay, Compadre" at El Centro Su Teatro
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_ _ _ _ Student health plan 'chintzy' Sl•ftlC'l'S
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Meredith Myers Staff Writer
Volleyball- · women 2-1 in MSCD Tourney.
Full-time students at MSCD who don't already have health insurance are required to purchase a plan through the college, which offers coverage that a consulting actuary calls "skimpy." James C. Kiefer is a consulting actuary for Buck Consultants, a firm that compares health insurance programs for governmental bodies. He said that the main diagnostic areas of the student
health insurance plan - accidental and mental health coverage - have been constrained and minimized. "The $25,000 lifetime maximum benefit isn't going to do it," Kiefer said. "It won't protect anyone in an accident or s1.ifgery, especially when they are hospitalized." Kiefer said that the policies' inpatient mental/nervous and drug/alcohol treatment plan that covers 80 percent for seven days of treatment is "pretty chintzy."
"College is a stressful atmosphere and somewhat drug and alcohol infested," he said. "This is the time when students are likely to get in trouble with those vices or be faced with nervous and mental problems. This benefit should not be restricted as much as it is." Steve Monaco, director of the Student Health Center, agrees with Kiefer about the $25,000 lifetime maximum
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