Faculty Senate Contends Insurance Policy Can Be Improved

World’s Fair - page 5 FBI agent charged with espionage, selling info to female Soviet agent Associated Press upon conviction would be life in prison. LOS ANGELES - The FBI arrested No bail was allowed because one of its own agents on espionage “flight is a real strong risk,” Assistant charges yesterday, accusing the U.S. Attorney Ray Edwards said. A California based counterspy of sel court document says there was a ling secrets to a female Soviet agent plan for Miller to go to Vienna, who government sources say may Austria, or Warsaw, Poland. have been his lover, and to her No plea was entered. Miller estranged husband. winked at his wife, Paula, in court, Special Agent Richard W. Miller, and she waved. The couple ex 47, a 20-year FBI veteran said to changed sign language messages. have been in financial trouble, was Svetlana Ogorodnikova, 34, of Los the first FBI agent ever charged with Angeles, an alleged KGB major, and espionage and the case marked the husband Nikolay Ogorodnikov, also first known foreign infiltration of the known as Nikolay Wolfson, 51, were FBI. also arrested and charged Wednes Miller, a counterspy based in Los day in Los Angeles. The FBI said they Angeles, was arrested at his home were born in the Soviet Union and and appeared before U.S. Magistrate emigrated to the United States in Roger McKee in San Diego. He was 1973. Always something Obud’s Gripe Night. The event was held in South ordered back to court today to face a Ogorodnikov, who works for a charge of conspiracy to gather local sausage factory, appeared Paul Peuvers and Marty Valentine patiently Dining Hall and offered students the opportunity defense information to aid a foreign listen to the gripes o f John Killian last night during to complain about any topic. government. Maximum penalty see SPYING, page 5 Faculty Senate contends insurance policy can be improved By FRANK LIPO more members become ill, they certain members of the faculty and desirable to the entire faculty.” He Bull said there were many reasons Senior Staff Reporter could pay up to *1200 per year in staff. said the personnel department has for the initial change to the new deductibles. This prompted the Faculty Senate not acted on the proposals of the plan. He said there was overuse and Although more than a year has The Faculty Senate believes the to sponsor a survey of the medical Faculty Senate and "the atmosphere misuse of the previous plan not only passed since the implementation of new policy was devised with little programs at 13 other universities. between the faculty and personnel by the N otre Dame faculty and staff, the new Notre Dame Group Health input from the faculty and was con The results of the survey were department cannot be described as but by the medical establishment. Insurance Plan, the Faculty Senate cerned that it penalized lower paid evaluated and a number of proposals amiable or cooperative." continues to insist elements of the m em bers of the faculty and staff. were made. Among the proposals Thomas Bull, director of person According to Bull.it has been new plan could be changed to were multiple choice programs, nel, said the new group health insur shown by a Rand Corporation study become more beneficial to faculty Professor Mario Borelli, former built-in incentives for careful ance plan is "working as it was that uninsured patients often were and staff. Faculty Senate chairman, said, "the verification of bills, University lead designed to work." He added, “We charged less by the medical es The University previously pos most upsetting thing to the senate ership in the local com m unity devel don’t have any intention of changing tablishment than insured patients sessed a "first dollar" coverage plan was that most changes were imple opment of Health Maintenance it, but we are constantly evaluating and this is not unique to Notre in which the faculty and staff mented during the summer. This Organization, auditing of all medical the group health options and alter Dame. He said unless the medical es received full medical Insurance may not be intentional but the result service charges, and a “wellness" natives." tablishment serving the faculty and coverage without paying premiums was there was almost no input from program to prevent major illnesses Bull would not comment on any staff and the faculty and staff them or any deductibles. the Faculty Senate." before they occur. This report was specific point of the faculty senate selves are monitored, the University According to the new policy, if a Father David Burrell, Faculty Sen submitted to the University last survey. He said the “machinery of “may not get the most efficient ex- single member of a family becomes ate chairman, said the new plan February. the institution" rules out a fast ill, he could pay *600 p er year in “substantially changed the terms of Borelli said, “The Faculty Senate process of change but does not rule see POLICY, page 6 deductibles; if a family had two or employment at the University” of feels a variety of coverages would be out the process itself. Peace Corps recruiting new people interested in helping disadvantaged By TERRY BIAND recruiter, has just returned from project in mind and they find a Staff Reporter Paraguay where she spent two and a group that wants to support that spe half years in the small town of San cific project," Mairson said. "What’s The goals of the Peace Corps are Juan. "The people were mostly farm good about it is a group gets to see to supply trained manpower to ers,” recalls Mairson. “I worked with where their money is going. They Ihlrd World nations, to give people them on improving farming meth get pictures of it and expect to get in other countries a better under ods and that sort of thing." reports on developments." standing of Americans, and to give The Peace Corps is a volunteer or The majority of the money put Americans a better understanding of ganization funded by the federal into Peace Corps is spent strictly on people in developing countries, ac government. People who serve supporting the volunteers, said cording to Dan Smocka, a recruiter overseas are paid approximately Smolka. The volunteers must for the Peace Corps. what a citizen of the host country "create the interest” in any project Recently, Smolka served as a doing the same job would be paid, they want to complete. Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, said Smolka. Workers receive * 175 a The average age of a Peace Corps West Africa, where he taught high month as a readjustment allowance, volunteer is 30, and the cost of sup school and college level biology. which is paid in a bulk sum at the porting a volunteer for a year is Smolka believes the students do end of two years when they return $29,000. Roughly 14 percent of the well, considering what they have to home. volunteers extend their service work with. The Peace Corps is additionally beyond the usual two-year period. "The thing to remember is that funded by a partnership fund, which they’re learning in a second lan is accessible to volunteers while Smolka and Mairson are working out of the Chicago area recruiting of guage," he said,“and that’s also overseas. Various organizations can I "he O bscivcr/ something they have to overcome.” contribute to the fund. fice and visiting various colleges in Toastmaster Stephen Smith displays his bashfulness-bustin’ tech Illinois and Indiana. Some of the On the average, Smolka found that Smolka explained if a volunteer nique at last night’s Toastmasters International Club meeting. The the students in West Africa were a discovered or created a project that schools are the Universtiy of Illinois, club meets every Wednesday to improve its members’public speak few years older than their counter had to be funded, money could be parts in the United States. used from this fund to pay for it. see CORPS, page 6 ing skills. The meetings are each week at 6:30p.m. in Room 223 o f Amy Mairson, a Peace Corp "Volunteers will have a specific Hayes-Healy. The Observer Thursday, October 4, 1984 — page 2 In Brief Changing current parietals The expulsion of two graduate students at still too much for some to handle the University of Georgia resulted from their allegedly selling grades to three undergraduates enrolled in their Spanish classes. The under Is there a Saint Mary’s upperclassman who does not graduates paid $150 to the two graduate teaching assistants in ex remember the outcome of last year’s housing prob change for “A” grades. All of the undergraduates involved had their lems? How student government generated enough sup Tess Guarino Spanish grades reduced, and two of them may lose their college port to show Dr. John Duggan, College president, that degrees as well. - The Observer the new system of blocking off specific rooms for fresh Assistant News Editor men was unfair? Well, if you recall, in the face of all that protest, Duggan had the housing policy reversed tw o Inside Thursday The number of airline delays dropped in Septem hours before room picks were to begin. ber because of better weather and the end of vacation season, but That incident showed students what they can ac the figure remained much higher than a year ago, officials said yes complish at Saint Mary’s if they really want to. check who comes into the dorm; at Saint Mary’s there terday.

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