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VOLUME LXXXXVII • ISSUE 8
International students share their talents (Left to right) Sam Osborn on guitar, Eva Rastetter on vocals and Niall McCann on drums perform during the Study Abroad Fair, organized by the International Education Exchange Council (IEEC) at Malcolm X Plaza Tuesday, Oct. 15. Each country represented in IEEC had a table to show abroad. Represented countries had food, games and dancing. The IEEC is the organization for foreign students studying at SF State or SF State students studying in other countries. Photo by Benjamin Kamps / Xpress Photographer Benjamin Kamps is a member of IEEC.
Cross-country teams finish strong at home
Health Center educates campus on Obamacare beza@mail.sfsu.edu
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SF State’s Student Health Center announced last Thursday, Oct. 10 its approval as a health coverage enrollment entity by Covered California at the Health and Wellness Fair on campus. The approval entails two employees for the health center paid through a $1.25 million grant given to Cal State Los Angeles to educate students on health care options through the Affordable Care Act. The Health and Wellness Fair event was in partnership with Covered California, the California equivalent of the national health care marketplace, Kaiser Permanente, the NAACP and Assemblyman Philip Y. Ting’s Obamacare Enrollment Campaign, to educate students on the health care reform. Students and faculty could not enroll in health insurance pre-enrollment assistance forms and could later be contacted by a Covered California representative via phone to get indiof Covered California about 25 pre-enrollment forms were “Forty percent of the SF State community does not have health coverage,” said Assemblyman Ting at a press conference before the event. “We’re tabling here with Covered California, we want to educate everyone about the different options, and really to encourage everyone to sign up.” Covered California’s grant to the CSU system will fund the health exchange company’s Health Insurance Education Proj-
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FTER weeks of competing on the road, Gator cross-country teams hit home terrain and dominated most of the competition at the SF State Invitational last Friday, Oct. 11.
They came in second overall in the 15-team meet at Golden Gate Park’s Speedway Meadows. Among the teams racing were several top-seeded California Collegiate Athletic Association opponents like Humboldt State and Cal State Stanislaus, who won the men’s and women’s races respectively. “It was another tight battle
with Humboldt State (on the men’s side),” said head coach Tom Lyons. “They got out quicker than us, but our guys closed over the second half of the race. The women’s race was fantastic. It was good to have (Zuleima Jimenez) back and a lot of the other girls ran their best times.”
educational materials on health care coverage and hire a total of 30 students to serve as campus representatives who will lead the education process on their CSU campuses. The Student Health Center will hire two students, funded from the grant to help educate the SF State community about the Affordable Care Act and how it will affect them. “For now that’s all the funding we will be receiving, and they will be paid directly by CSULA” said Aimée Williams lead health educator at the Student Health Services Center. The $1.25 million grant was given to CSULA, because the Health Insurance Education Project is a joint project by the CSU system and CSULA, to educate CSU students, their families and campus staff about the new health insurance law.