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Volume 62, Issue 3
October 17, 2013
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STAYING HEALTHY
Affordable Care Act offers options on a budget By Will Grubb, Amari Gaffney & Nick Valenzuela wgrubb.connect@gmail agaffney.connect@gmail nvalenzuela.connect@gmail Three and a half years after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, the U.S. has taken its first large step in a massive health care reform. This legislation, known as the Affordable Care Act, introduced open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace on
Oct. 1. The Marketplace is the first phase in the ACA’s goal of providing cheaper health care to all American citizens. It serves as a place where people can research, compare and apply for private health care plan options. Each individual state has its own marketplace. For California, applicants will apply through a new marketplace titled Covered California. “We’ve started strong,” said Executive Director Peter V. Lee of Covered California, in a press release. “The amount of
interest and number of applications we’ve received in the first week underscores the demand among Californians for quality, affordable health care.” Covered California divides the state into different pricing regions that offer area-specific insurance plans. For the Sacramento region, plans are available through four different major insurance companies: Anthem Blue Cross of California, Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente and Western Health Advantage. CARE ACT | Page 3
ON STAGE
production ‘TREPIDATION NATION’ Theater tackles phobias
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The amount of interest... we’ve recieved in the first week underscores the demand among Californians for quality, affordable health care.” —Peter V. Lee
Executive Director, Covered California
CAMPUS ATHLETICS
Goalkeeper, student takes Hawks one step closer to winning Big 8 By Stephan Starnes sstarnes.connect@gmail
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“Naked Lunch” — an abusive ex-boyfriend, Vernon (Stig Walker), forces his former girlfriend Lucy (Caitlin Hatfield) to eat a piece of steak after learning she is now a vegetarian. This scene was one of 10 in “Trepidation Nation,” performed on Oct. 14.
By Emily Collins ecollins.connect@gmail With haunted houses and costume parties hosted throughout the month, October is often viewed as a time to be frightened for fun and the Cosumnes River College theatre arts department is following that theme. Students are performing “Trepidation Nation,” a collection of monologues and short scenes portraying a variety of fears and phobias in the Black Box Theatre Oct. 14-Oct. 17. Though not meant to scare the audience, the theme is one that can be troublesome, for both the audience members and the cast.
LOCAL GROUP RALLIES SUPPORT FOR THE NEW DOWNTOWN ARENA
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“I’m pretty afraid to portray phobias,” said Theodore Butler, 24, a theatre arts for transfer major. “I’m not good at portraying fear.” More serious pieces include “Hold This,” performed by 22-year-old Stig Walker, a programming major. It is about a young man who obsessively relives the death of a dozen baby chicks he had raised. “I don’t know how to deal with phobias,” Walker said. “I can emulate them, I suppose, but I don’t understand it.” Another scene showed two sisters suffering from an inability to sleep and having a serious conversation about their past the night before their father’s funeral. TREPIDATION | Page 5
LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE
Website tracks graduates’ income By Rachel Norris & LaChandra Marzetta rnorris.connect@gmail lmarzetta.connect@gmail When choosing a career path, it’s not always possible for students to predict the possible earned salary or which career will provide the largest salary in the future, but a new tool is now available to do just that: Salary Surfer. The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
has created a website called Salary Surfer , which allows students to look up the earnings of recent graduates who obtained degrees or certificates in certain programs at community colleges in California. “It’s a snapshot of information that can help students make an informed decision about a career,” said Los Rios Community College Chancellor Brian King. “It doesn’t answer all the questions, and it doesn’t guarantee what the
income would be, but it’s very helpful for students to have a good idea about what potential earnings are for various careers.” Salary Surfer uses a system that tracks the student records of graduates from the Chancellor’s Office Management Information System and collaborates those records with the California Employment Development and Unemployment Insurance SALARY | Page 2
The one quality that stands out about the goalkeeper of the Hawks women’s soccer team is “her fearlessness,” said freshman defender Korie Martin. “She’s not afraid to get in there, to get knocked down, to get kicked or cleated. She’ll go in and she just wants the ball no matter who has it.” Head coach Cesar Plasencia said that “she’s super competitive, so she’s always giving her maximum effort to keep the ball out of the net.” These two statements refer to Anna Brown, who has been a dominant force this season in front of the net. The freshman has been named Student Athlete of the Week twice, and has shut out four schools in the 12 games she’s started, three of which were in Big 8 Conference play. Brown has given up only 11 goals in 12 games, four of which were goals that came from a loss at San Joaquin Delta College on Oct. 8, according to the Hawks’ athletics statistics. Brown was recruited by the women’s soccer coach Cesar Plasencia, but took her academic freshman year off from sports after having been playing since she BROWN | Page 11
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