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Climate Biden has called for a “clean energy revolution,” which would ensure America uses 100% clean energy by 2050. He has refused donations from all oil, gas and coal corporations and executives.

His plan will cost about $1.7 trillion, and he plans to finance it by ending Trump’s 2017 corporate tax cuts and ending taxbreaks for the fossil-fuel industry. Biden has been upfront with his strategy: demand Congress pass his bill. He’s stated publicly he would use executive orders if needed.

Education Biden’s plans for education revolve around three initiatives: invest in community colleges and trade schools, reduce student debt and make historical investments in minority serving institutions.

Biden’s plans will provide the first two years of community college debt-free and double the maximum value of the Pell grant. Biden’s plan is a $750 billion investment in education over 10 years which is fully paid for by

ending the “stepped-up basis” tax loophole that caps itemized deductions the wealthiest Americans can take to 28%.

Healthcare Biden favors a “public option” that would expand provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Biden wants to expand Medicaid eligibility to the 4.9 million Americans whose states never accepted Obamacare. Part of Biden’s plan also includes giving individuals the right to buy prescription drugs from other countries who sell them more affordably.

There is not a specific price tag listed for Biden’s healthcare proposals.

Guns Biden is an opponent of the National Rifle Association and has voted against its interests virtually every chance he has gotten. Biden would push to ban all assault weapons, require background checks for all gun sales, close loopholes in the federal background check system and prohibit the online sale of all firearms and ammunition.

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Climate Sanders’ Green New Deal is meant to avert a climate catastrophe and create 20 million new jobs.

The Green New Deal includes a direct $16.3 trillion public investment. Provisions in the plan are vast and expensive, but Sanders argues the investment will pay for itself over 15 years.

Sanders plans on calling for a national emergency in order to get his climate policy passed.

Education Sanders supports making public universities tuition free. His plan, called the College for All Act, will provide $48 billion annually to eliminate tuition and fees for public universities. Sanders also proposes eliminating all student debt.

This would relieve over 45 million Americans of $1.6 trillion of debt.

Sanders plans to pay for this using a tax on financial institutions. He estimates this new tax will generate over $2 trillion over the next 10 years.

Healthcare Sanders’ Medicare for All would guarantee healthcare to every American and eliminate all premiums, co-

pays and deductibles.

Sanders claims Medicare for All would save about $5 trillion in total health expenditures over the next 10 years by eliminating private insurance and shifting the way Americans pay for healthcare.

Medicare for All would expand the role of government in the healthcare system by using federal, state and local governments as its sole provider.

Sanders has many options to pay for Medicare for All, which will raise about $17.5 trillion, according to Sanders’ estimates. Most of his options are targeted at the “1%,” but one of his options is a 4% tax on employees to cover premiums. Sanders argues the average family will save $5,000 a year by eliminating private insurance costs.

Guns Being from Vermont, a state with a high population of gun owners, Sanders voted in favor of guns in the past.

He has expressed regret for his past votes.

Sanders is for expanded background checks, ending the gun show loophole and banning assault weapons.

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Climate A couple of the major goals outlined in Bloomberg’s proposals are 100% pollution free homes and buildings by 2025 and a shift to 80% clean energy by 2028. Bloomberg wants to quadruple the federal R&D investment in clean energy and end all subsidies for fossil fuels.

Bloomberg has donated great sums of money to republican senate campaigns who voted against letting the EPA regulate greenhouse gasses in the past.

Education Bloomberg’s plan is to make two-year public college tuition-free for everyone and debt-free for low income students, four-year public colleges tuition and debt free for low income students, reduce federal undergraduate student-loan payments and help twothirds of Americans complete degrees or quality credentials. Bloomberg also wants to double the size of Pell grants.

The College Transparency Act would create new data on graduate earnings and loan repayment. The total costs of these plans amass $700 billion. Bloomberg’s

campaign said it would be covered by raising taxes on the wealthy.

Healthcare Bloomberg supports a public option.

Bloomberg’s plan would reduce customer premiums by 10% and expand a subsidies cap on premiums to 8.5% of a person’s income.

Bloomberg also calls for eliminating all “surprise medical bills,” capping drug costs at 120% of other countries average costs and requiring all states to cover oral health services for patients enrolled in Medicaid.

The price tag is about $1.5 trillion. The Bloomberg campaign has stated they believe the price will be primarily offset by ending surprise medical bills, letting the Department ofHealth and Human Services negotiate drug prices, capping provider payments and overhauling Medicare’s prescription drug benefit.

Customer premiums would be the main way his plans are paid for.

Guns Bloomberg is mainly focused on background checks and permit requirements but aspires to ban assault weapons as well.

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Stillwater residents who were registered to vote had their final opportunity to vote in both the presidential primary and county alcohol proposition on Tuesday.

Voters who wanted to vote in person showed up to their polling places on Tuesday, or to their county election board last week.

Mail in absentee ballots were due to the Election Board by the close of voting on Tuesday.

Two statewide polls, one by Swayable, and one

by Data for Progress, had former Vice President Joe Biden with a 12 point and seven point lead, respectively. The O’Colly conducted an unscientific exit poll on the day of the election, speaking to 80 voters across eight different polling locations in Stillwater. Of those 80 voters, 55 agreed to respond to at least one of the poll questions.

Dakota Christian, chair-

man of the Payne County Democrats, said Payne County’s vote totals might not look like the rest of the state.

“I do not think Payne County will go to Bloomberg,” Christian said. “I think there is a very high chance that it goes to a progressive.”

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are the two progressives still in the race. Of the voters who both voted in the Democratic primary and responded to the O’Colly’s questions, 43.5% reported voting for Sanders.

One such voter is a math major attending Oklahoma State University, focusing on secondary education.

Gabriel Clem said the most important issue for him going into the election was healthcare.

“He’s been the most consistent with the issues that he does support, and I think that his values align very well with mine,” Clem said.

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respondents to the poll, and his voters cited a wide variety of reasons for their support.

One Sanders voter, who said she works in advertising, said there was one issue that touched all of the others.

“The most important issue to me is getting big money out of politics because the other issues branch out from there,” Bethany Folkes said.

In the O’Colly’s poll, respondents who reported voting in the Democratic primary reported voting for Biden 33.3% of the time.

Biden voters frequently reported beating President Donald Trump as their most important issue.

Republicans made up 16.4% of respondents in the O’Colly’s poll, and 88.9% reported casting their vote in support of President Trump.

Amongst voters of all political affiliations, 88.9 percent reported voting in favor of the county’s alcohol proposition.

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The O’Colly conducted an unscientific exit poll on the day of the election, speaking to 80 voters across eight different polling locations in Stillwater.

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Students at OSU debated the merits of voting before Super Tuesday.

OSU students talk about voting Susanna LeMasters O’Colly Contributor @o c olly

Millennial and Gen Z generations will be the largest group of eligible voters in the 2020 election.

Historically, the young adult vote has been lower than the adult vote, so the question for Super Tuesday is: will young adults and student voters in follow this trend?

The student vote has increased over the last eight years. Students voted at a higher rate in 2016 than 2012, from 45.1 % in 2012 to 48.3% in 2016, according to Institute for Democracy & Higher Education report on U.S. college and University student voting.

Some students attending OSU said they believe their vote matters, and they plan on voting in the 2020 election, while other students said they don’t believe their vote matters and do not plan on voting. When asked, both students did not know what the 2020 census was and had not heard of it.

Political Science major

Grayson Schooler recently became eligible to vote.

Schooler said voting is important to him, and he thinks more students and young people will vote in 2020 elections.

“I am always going to vote,” Schooler said. “I value government and the process of elections. I think it’s really important.”

On the other hand, one student attending OSU said she isn’t registered to vote and does not care about voting. Kayle Bearpaw, a psychology major, said she isn’t interested in the election.

“To me, my vote doesn’t matter because there are tons more voters out there, and a college student vote doesn’t really matter,” Bearpaw said.

Bearpaw and Schooler disagree, but they have something in common; they are both between 18 and 19 years old. They can vote legally, but they can’t buy tobacco or alcohol. One is exercising their right while the other is not.

“I think having the ability

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to vote is essential to the citizens of the United States,” Schooler said. “Without it, we wouldn’t be the country we are.”

When it comes to donating to political campaigns, according to Pew Research’s 5 facts about U.S. political donations, the share of Americans who say they are contributors to political campaigns has doubled since 1992. The percentage increased from 6% of Americans in 1992 to 12% of Americans in 2016.

However, the young adult and student contributions look different than the adult contributions. A total of 9% of 18-29 year olds donated money to a political campaign in 2016 compared to 12% of 30-49 year olds, 14% of 50-64 year olds and 32% of 65 and plus year olds.

Schooler and Bearpaw said they do not currently contribute to any political campaign.

“Maybe sometime down the road I will donate, but currently I am not finically stable,” Schooler said.

I cast my vote in the Presidential Primary election for Super Tuesday, the day where 14 states hold elections that account for over 33% of the available delegates.

Like many college students, I’ve voted before, but this was my first opportunity to vote in a presidential election.

Filling out my ballot was easy, but getting to that point required several steps.

First, I had to update my voter registration.

I’ve been registered since I turned 18, but I was registered in my hometown. I knew trying to leave campus and travel home in the middle of the week would be difficult, so I updated my information to match my current apartment before Feb. 7, which was Oklahoma’s registration deadline for Super Tuesday.

To register to vote or update information, you just have to go to a tag agency and fill out a simple form. I made an event out of it, gathering a group of friends who had never voted and helping all of them register as I updated my information.

Next, I had to decide who to give my vote.

For this, I watched the debates, looked at candidates’ stances and records and read the news. I knew I would only feel confi-

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dent voting for someone I agreed with and trusted.

Choosing a candidate can be hard. Candidates are flawed just like the rest of us, but I think it’s a matter of finding who you believe can most likely secure a better future for everyone.

If you are struggling to choose a candidate, there are tools that can help.

Sites like isidewith.com have a short quiz about leading issues that helps show which candidates most align with your ideals. However, these sites should not be the sole factor in your vote, but rather a suggestion of what candidates to look in to.

With my registration done and my mind made up, I made my way to the polls. My polling place was less than a mile from my apartment, a quaint church just off of sixth street. Inside, I presented my voter ID and signed my name in the registration book. I got my ballot, filled it out and fed it into a machine.

I had a smile on my face as I left the polling station. I’m proud to be able to finally take part in a presidential election.

I look forward to casting my vote in the general election in November, as well as future local and state voting.

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Student employees for the Department of Wellness and campus dining who live in the residence halls can apply to be a part of the Residential Life Incentive Program to have their pay supplemented to earn up to $11.50 per hour.

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An OSU Residential Life program that gives student employees higher pay will return for a second year in Fall 2020.

The Housing and Residential Life Incentive Program, a program to supplement pay for students who work and live on campus, was established in Fall 2019. Thanks to its success, Residential Life will bring it back for the 2020-21 school year, said Jon Hunt, Residential Life’s assistant director of business services.

“It has been a big win for wellness and dining in attracting and retaining staff,” Hunt said. “Res Life is realizing a gain in returner numbers. We love the returners as they generally set great examples for freshmen and help balance wisdom with newness.”

Through the program, students who return to the residence halls after living on campus for at least one year and who work either in campus dining or the Department of Wellness can have their pay supplemented so they can earn up to $11.50 per hour for 20 hours a week. In the fall, the program will also include the residential halls’ desk staff.

There are more than 5,300 students living on campus in 31 residence halls, according to the Residential Life website.

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About 1,300 of those students are returners, and about 180 of the returners participated in the program this year. Karyn Atwell is one of them.

Atwell, a professional pilot senior, has lived on campus for almost three years, and she has worked at Which Wich in the Kerr-Drummond Mezzanine for the majority of that time. She made $7.50 per hour her first semester before she was promoted to student supervisor.

Then she received a 25 cent raise each semester she stayed at Which Wich, with a cap of $8 per hour.

As a member of the Incentive Program, she makes $11.50 per hour.

“It’s really nice that as students we can get paid more than the bottom of the leaky buckets budget for what we do,” Atwell said. “For most of us, we have that job to help pay for our schooling, and personally, those fatter checks allow me to make bigger payments on the bursar, which is really nice.”

“It makes a huge difference for this university to have at least a certain number of residents remaining on campus.”

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The program, intended to increase the number of students who return to on-campus housing, is paid for by rent. Hunt said returners are less expensive than freshmen because most of Residential Life’s resources go toward helping freshmen adjust to college life. The program allows Residential Life to pass those savings on to the returners in exchange for those returners setting an example for the freshmen.

Hunt said he thinks OSU is the only university with a program like this, and he has been contacted by two universities who are interested in starting their own versions. He said the program hasn’t just been beneficial to Residential Life or the students, but it is beneficial to the university as a whole.

“It makes a huge difference for this university to have at least a certain number of residents remaining on campus,” Hunt said. “When you get right down to it, a huge mission for this university is to retain students. The better the quality of interaction is amongst our student body, the better our retention statistics will be.”

Students have to register for campus housing before they can apply for the Incentive Program. Housing registration opened Feb. 3, and the application for the Incentive Program will stay open until May 1.

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Oklahoma State women’s basketball player Lauren Fields chose to commit to OSU after a late switch at of California’s coach.

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Lauren Fields has been a key cog for the Oklahoma State women’s basketball team this season, but she wasn’t supposed to end up in Stillwater.

The freshman guard from Shawnee initially committed to California but decommitted late in the process.

“The head coach got a coaching job with the NBA, and part of the reason I committed there was because I was close with the coach,” Fields said.

“But I didn’t want to go so far away from home without a good relationship with the coaches. That’s what made my decision.”

After California coach Lindsay Gottlieb bolted to join newly appointed Cavaliers coach John Beilein’s staff, Fields decided to keep it close to home.

Coach Jim Littell said after Gottlieb left, Fields had to re-evaluate her decision, which opened the gates for her to play close to home.

“It would be a chance for mom and dad and her family and friends to get a chance to watch her play,” Littell said. “It worked out the right way for both parties.”

Fields said she’s glad she’s close to home and has adjusted well to her new team; she’s close with her teammates. She said the Cowgirls’ chem-

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istry off the court has helped things on the court as well.

And on the court, Fields has played a vital role for OSU; she has started multiple games for the Cowgirls and soaked up big minutes.

Littell said Fields will continue to grow as the years go along, but she’s already playing excellent defense and making a big impact.

“She’s getting thrown in the fire and having to guard some really highlevel players,” Littell said. “She’s learning offensively, but Lau’s had some ups and downs, but she’s helped us win some games as well. She’s going to have a nice career here.”

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Today’s Birthday (03/04/20). Friends are your strength this year. Teamwork thrives with discipline and coordination.

Winter brings team victory before a romantic challenge requires attention. A career shift next summer leads you into a hot romance. Professional breakthroughs brighten next winter. Connect, coordinate and collaborate together.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Take leadership over the next few weeks, with Mercury in Aquarius.

Communication benefits your career. Your luck in love flowers, with Venus in your sign.

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