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JANUARY 27, 2016
ISSUE NO. 16 VOL. 52
News RaiderCash is the new Flex Dollar Kelsey Powell Contributing Writer Powell.210@wright.edu
Healthy options to be added to the vending machines Page 3
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right State is introducing a new form of payment for vending machines and restaurants called RaiderCash. Formerly known as Flex Dollars, RaiderCash will work the same as Flex Dollars but will provide a five percent discount on all vending and participating restaurant locations off campus. “If a student uses excess financial aid to go on to a declining balance debit card at a university; at the end of that academic year, the unused amount has to be refunded to the student,” Steve Adams Associate Director of Wright1 card and vending services said. Adams said when WSU started to enforce this federal regulation, WSU could no longer mix financial aid flex and regular flex together WSU had to separate them out. “We changed it (Flex Dollars) to RaiderCash because the names were too similar. We wanted to eliminate confusion,” Adams said.
This way, students don’t mix financial aid flex with regular Flex Dollars. Once promotions start happening with the card, they will only be applicable with RaiderCash and no other form like financial aid flex. RaiderCash is the
ward points, discounts, whatever it is you get from your credit card because you made an expense,” Adams said. This is another benefit adding
money students deposit on their Wright1 card themselves and can be used anywhere on campus and many places off campus. There are four machines on campus that you can use to deposit money on your card or you can go the online route and deposit money right from your credit card. “Credit cards are prominent, everyone loves to use a credit card now-a-days, so if you make a deposit, you still get your loyalty points, re-
t o t h e five percent discount students receive from 17 merchants and about 100 vending machines. These merchants include Marco’s Pizza, the shopping center that has Hot Head Burritos, Penn Station and Pita Wrap. Also included is The Flying Pizza along with Subway and Tropical Smoothie Café, with many others on the list. Adams said the goal is to move across the freeway into Beavercreek. “Students might use it more. Flex Dollars are kind of con-
fusing; RaiderCash makes more sense. I wasn’t sure what Flex Dollars were until I heard of RaiderCash. I might put money on it instead of using my credit card,” local bank employee and Wright State student Garrett Crawford said. Crawford said that the five percent discount is more than the money he gets back on his credit card but he’s not sure about convenience. “It’s not convenient to go online all the time to put money on the (Wright1) card from the credit card,” Crawford said and even suggested that making it an app would be easier and faster for students. Crawford said he would like to see more merchants such as Taco Bell, Chipotle, Burger King and Wendy’s as well as grocery and health food stores. “There is literally no downside to the student putting money on the card when they use RaiderCash,” Adams said. Adams wants students to keep an eye out for more merchants to come and be added to the five percent discount that RaiderCash provides.
Get spooked with “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
An exclusive interview with the cast Leah Kelley Editor-in-Chief Kelley.90@wright.edu
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ride and Prejudice and Zombies” is a feisty twist on Jane Austen’s classic tale, directed by Burr Steers and starring Lily James (“Cinderella”), Matt Smith (“Dr. Who”), Douglas Booth (“Noah”), Bella Heathcote (“Dark Shadows”) and Sam Riley (“Maleficent”). The movie is based off a 2009 horror comedy novelization by Seth Grahame-Smith. The film stays true to much of Austen’s nineteenth -century original storyline, except this time a plague has hit England and instead of husband hunting, the Bennett sisters are hunting zombies instead.
Lily James plays Elizabeth Bennett, the strong-willed protagonist most famous for her romance with Mr. Darcy. “It’s cool because you still get Jane Austen,” James said in a conference call with The Guardian. “That all remains at the heart of the story. The zombies just make it an exciting romp. It’s Austen with less traditional values and more candy on top.” “Because there’s zombies in the film, that allows you to make bold choices,” Matt Smith said about playing Mr. Collins, the obtuse cousin of the Bennett sisters. “I went back to the book as a source of material to try and make things up and improvise.” Story continued on page 4