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Seniors reflect on past memories Players to compete in final game of their career against Miami McKINNEY SPORTS EDITOR | MATT @Matt_D_McKinney
When senior tight end Zane Fakes runs out of the tunnel of Scheumann Stadium for the final time of his Ball State career this Friday, he won’t be thinking of the game he’s about to play. “[I’ll be thinking of] everything since I’ve been here,” Fakes said. “Everything since I’ve started playing footSTATE’S FINAL GAME ball. This is poten- BALL OF MAC PLAY THIS SEASON tially one of the last Cardinals hold advantages two games I’ll play in over struggling Miami squad my career. ... It’s going + PAGE 3 AND 4 to be everything I’ve went through in my career since I’ve started playing football when I was 8 years old.” Fakes is in the midst of a season in which he has 34 receptions for 361 yards and two touchdowns. His numbers are the lowest since his sophomore year in 2011, possibly because of the emergence of sophomore wide receiver Jordan Williams. In Fakes’ true freshman season, the team went 2-10, a far cry from the possibility of going 10-2 this season. “When I started college, the team wasn’t very good,” Fakes said. “Now, we’re winning a lot of games. Hopefully it won’t be too emotional, because we still have a game to play. But there definitely will be some emotion when my name is called and I walk out there with my parents.”
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Young adults must get health care GROUP ADVOCATES DIVESTMENT to pay for older, less healthy people FUEL Ball State students Fewer than needed sign up for insurance after first 2 months |
KAITLIN LANGE STAFF REPORTER kllange@bsu.edu
About 106,000 people have signed up for the Affordable Care Act since exchanges opened on Oct. 1, far below the Obama administration’s expectations. Making things worse, the number of young adults needed to subsidize older participants signing up for insurance nationally is only around 20 percent of total enrollment. The administration is aiming for 38 percent of total participants to be young adults by the 2014 deadline. Greg Scandlen, a former National Center for Policy Analysis staff member, said younger
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people are important to the health of an insurance exchange. “Younger people don’t consume any services so they are basically subsidizing everybody else,” Scandlen said. “It keeps the overall cost down quite a bit.” One reason Scandlen said younger people aren’t signing up is because of the prices of the insurance. “They are being drastically over charged for it. It’s a really close balancing act,” he said. “You have to be very careful about charging little enough to get them into the pool, but not so little that they’re not subsidizing the rest of the pool.” Scandlen said although younger people need to subsidize the older users of an insurance plan to an extent, young people have a lot of other financial burdens to deal with. He also said they are generally paid less than
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106,000 people have signed up for the Affordable Care Act through exchanges nationally
20 percent
is the approximate percentage of young people who make up the total of those signed up
38 percent
is the percentage of young adults the Obama administration hoped would apply for insurance established adults. “I haven’t seen enough attention given to younger people,” Scandlen said. “A lot of people who are just out of college and are starting out in life have a lot of expenses that older people don’t have. “They’re just trying to put a life together. It’s simply not
fair to expect younger people to be subsidizing older people to this extent.” Keeping with the national trend, several Ball State students said they will not sign up for coverage. One main reason: students are allowed to stay on their parent’s insurance until they are 26-years-old. Scandlen said this is also a “terrible” idea. “It prolongs adolescence beyond any reasonable time,” Scandlen said. “Most insurers have allowed students to stay on their parents’ policy as long as they are registered in school. The Affordable Care Act allows students to be on their parents’ policy, even if they’ve set up their own home, even if they’ve gotten married to someone else and even if there is no dependent relationship whatsoever. That makes no sense to me at all.”
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A Ball State student activism group has joined a national movement to start conversations on campus about ceasing university investment in fossil fuels. Go Fossil Free Ball State is part of more than 300 colleges and universities taking part in the Fossil Free campaign. The group is raising awareness through a petition and a report to the Board of Trustees. The report, which focuses on student and donor perspectives, along with climate science and ethical issues, will be 4. MOSTLY SUNNY completed later this week. The Board of Trustees will review it at its next meeting.
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“We want institutional leaders to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years.”
RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu
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Representative from the group Kourtney Dillavou, a fifth-year landscape architecture major, said the goal is to have universities divest funds in the top 200 publicly-traded companies that hold the majority of the world’s fossil fuel reserves. The group started its petition before Muncie’s Living Lightly Fair in September and since have amassed more than 5.then SUNNY 400 signatures. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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