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Executive, elections boards hope election increases participation DEVAN FILCHAK NEWS EDITOR | news@bsudailynews.com After only 10 percent of students voted in the 2012 Student Government Association executive board election, the executive and elections boards are making changes to draw more student interest. “I think it is ridiculous that 6,000 [students] vote for Homecoming, and [about] 2,000 do for a student body president who makes decisions for them,” SGA President Chris Wilkey said. This year, executive board slates will add an another week of campaigning and an additional debate. Slates will now campaign for three weeks and participate in three debates. The elections board will also hold an open forum where the election process for SGA will be explained at 7 p.m. on Jan. 29 in Teachers College room 102. Kevin Thurman, SGA elections board chairman, said students should pay more attention to SGA or consider running for office because the effect is more powerful than some students think. “I think it is underestimated by many students at times,” he said. “This is a direct line of communication with the UPCOMING administration to help EVENTS solve any issues on ELECTION PACKETS campus.” Available 8 p.m. Tuesday SGA has contributed in the Student Center to changes on campus room 112 such as the Student SGA ELECTIONS Recreation and WellOPEN FORUM ness Center, the Blue 7 p.m. Jan. 29 in Loop shuttle and exTeacher’s College room 102 tending the semester by a day to eliminate NOMINATION CONVENTION Fruesday. 8 p.m. Feb. 4, location to be determined “[Being a part of SGA] is more than just sitting on a bus, complaining or at dinner complaining with your friends about how the sidewalks weren’t plowed,” Thurman said. “There’s a reason the Student Government Association is here – to help students solve any issues on campus and make this community better for the current students and those to come.” Slates are made up of candidates for president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. Election packets for applying executive slates will be available at 8 a.m. Tuesday in L.A. Pittenger Student Center room 112. The SGA president receives a stipend worth full in-state tuition and his or her own office in the Student Center. Other members of the executive board receive varying amounts of compensation. Students who apply do not have to have any prior SGA experience. “It’s a student body president position, not just a Student Government Association [position,]” Wilkey said. “My big push is for people to know, because even if we don’t have a lot of slates run, at least people know that the position is paid by their student activity fees, and that they are making decisions on behalf of the students.” Wilkey had only a little SGA experience before applying. He said he thinks it helped his leadership perspective, because he questions a lot of SGA procedures. Slates competing will be announced at the SGA Nomination Convention on Feb. 4. “I would love to see five or six slates run,” Wilkey said. “You would have your choice, and you wouldn’t just have one or the other. You may have one that fits you perfectly or if you don’t, run your own slate.”
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University, county officials encourage students, residents to take preventative measures EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER | ekfittes@bsu.edu
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Vitamin D can hurt or help during the illness epidemic JEREMY ERVIN CHIEF REPORTER Nonetheless, vitamin D is generally accepted | jervin@bsu.edu to boost the immune system, activating T-cells Students, especially those living in residence halls, have an elevated risk of contracting the flu due to the heavy population density of campus. An often overlooked and controversial means of prevention is taking vitamin D supplements. Research on vitamin D’s effect on the common cold is hotly debated, with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey studies from 2010 suggesting that it does help and more recent studies in 2011 from the University of Otago Christchurch in New Zealand suggesting that the vitamin is ineffective.
in the human body that fight off infection, according to the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology. Vitamin D deficiency is often associated with the winter, as the body’s means of producing it is through the skin via sunlight, which people get significantly less of during the winter months. Seasonal depression may also be a result of vitamin D deficiency alongside psychological factors.
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Pence works to redefine his image out of Washington New governor looks to distance himself from conservative past | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — It looks like Mike Pence is hanging up his mitts after more than a decade of leading religious conservatives in fights against abortion, gay marriage and President Barack Obama in Washington. Blasts against Planned Parenthood and comparisons between the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the federal health care law are being replaced with tightly scripted ruminations on
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HOW ABOUT THAT INDIANA WEATHER?
workforce training and vocational education. The man who said last year that Republicans should “pick a fight” over the government shutdown now says he plans to brief legislative leaders from both parties on his first-year legislative agenda when he becomes Indiana’s 50th governor on Monday. “Our first priority when I raise my right hand on Jan. 14 is we’re going to make job creation job one,” he said. “We’re going to work with legislators of both political parties to do everything we can to get this economy moving.” When Pence takes office today, Hoosiers can expect to see a different style of leadership than Gov. Mitch Daniels, said Ray Scheele, Ball
State political science professor and co-director of the Bowen Center for Public Affairs. Scheele said Daniels saw himself as a transformational governor, while Pence wants to keep Indiana moving in the same direction without any major changes. “Gov. Daniels took some real shots at changing Indiana, and we’ll have to wait and see how many of them actually work,” he said. “He was a change agent, and I don’t think we’re going to see that in Pence.” The carefully scripted talking points represent a rare opportunity for Pence, who built a
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HOOSIER SURVEY
The Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State and WISH TV Channel 8 paired together to compile the fifth annual Hoosier Survey. The survey includes information and findings on job creation, tax cuts, public education, health insurance and the decriminalization of marijuana. The entire study can be found here: bit.ly/UifADU
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