March 29, 2017 Check out next week’s special edition of the Royal Purple to see the final results from our Best of Whitewater competition. Winners were voted by more than 500 members ofthe Whitewater community and campus.
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AMA keeps spot at top of the world
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The UW-Whitewater American Marketing Association chapter was named the best AMA chapter in the world at the 2017 AMA Collegiate Conference on March 18 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This win marks the sixth year in a row that the chapter has won an award at the national level. see story on page 8 of Biz & Tech
‘Kind’ of a big deal
New WSG President discusses taking on new role, outlines upcoming priorities for campus Emily Lepkowski News Editor
Kind, current Whitewater Student Goverment (WSG) vice president, and Veserat, current senator, described their campaigning experience as something of a balancing act. “It was a roller coaster,” Veserat said. “I learned a lot from Tom especially, I learned a lot from all the different organizations around campus but it was definitely a good experience.” The Whitewater Student Government (WSG) voted to approve new president sophomore Thomas Kind in their last meeting before Spring Break on Tuesday, March 14. Kind and vice president, freshman Hogan Veserat campaigned throughout the fall leading up to the annual debate and election. Looking Ahead Kind and Veserat centered their campaign on three priorities for campus, one being working to build the relationship between the student body and faculty. Kind said the lack of student-faculty relationship was a frustration he’s heard voiced more often than anything else from student organizations on campus.
Health Care Act withdrawn Ryan’s plan failed to receive necessary support from Senate Kolton Hegstrom Assistant News Editor
“Most people feel that they don’t know who’s in administration that they can work with them or they don’t know their resources,” Kind said. The need to let students know about their resources and options coincides with their priority of sexual assault prevention and awareness. “That’s a big part about working with sexual assault too is that they don’t know their resources,” Kind said.” Or you don’t know the consequences of a resource, you don’t know what an action will do.”
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s (R-Wisconsin) proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA) was withdrawn on March 24 because of lack of support for the bill. Even though the bill wasn’t passed, it will likely be the rough outline for the final bill that will be proposed. The bill is not entirely different from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “It’s [The AHCA] not exactly a repeal,” Dr. Eric Loepp, political science professor at UW-Whitewater said. “It’s changing to be sure and it’s revising, but it’s not really undoing Obamacare.” The proposed bill kept some of the popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act. For example, children are able to stay on their parents plan until they are 26, there is protection for those with pre-existing diseases and no lifetime insurance caps. The first major difference is the removal of the individual mandate. Under the ACA, citizens were required by law to
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