Oscar Loynaz

Affordable Care Act expands student health services

The student tuition health fee allows students certain health services at little or no cost, but both insured and uninsured students encounter problems seeking medical help on-campus. However, now that the Affordable Care Act will offer more options for young adults, more students will have access to health insurance.

Course requirement: march in pride parade

Stephanie Mason/Staff Writer Professor Oscar Loynaz quotes Buddha in the syllabus for his class LGBT and Beyond: Non-Normative Sexualities in Global Perspective. It reads, “Believe nothing… unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” The course covers a wide range of topics in the including subcultures, the role of media, health […]

Health fee increase hearing to be held this week

Alyssa Elso/ Contributing Writer The newly renamed Student Health Services, will soon be improving its medical services available to students. These new improvements will however come at a cost for students. On March 4, a health fee increase was presented to the health fee committee. The increase will be used to help meet various compliance […]

Transgender students face insurance issues at University

Alyssa Elso/Contributing Writer An increasing number of universities throughout the nation are offering transgender students health insurance plans that cover gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. In the last decade, activists have fought to acquire recognition for transgender needs on campus, beginning with the acknowledgment of a students name change to allowing them to use […]

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