Volume 16, Issue 8& January 13, 2010

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Andrew Bailey

MANAGING EDITOR Stephanie McCullough (Vacant)

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Haakon Sullivan (Vacant)

GENERAL OFFICE ASSISTANT Kali Flick

COPY EDITOR Helen Hogeterp

NEWS EDITOR Shelby Petersen

ARTS EDITOR Vacant

SPORTS EDITOR Andrew Bailey (Vacant)

PHOTO EDITOR Aria Hannolyn Cheng

AD MANAGER Vacant

CLUBS EDITOR Vacant

CONTRIBUTORS Everald Creary Devon Flynn

Deadline for submissions for next issue is Wednesday January 20th, 2010

Memo From the Boss

Hey yall, welcome to the new decade! Con- gratulations on your great marks last semes- ter, or for the rest of us, hopefully we can do better this semester, eh. Rest assured, no matter how your G.P.A. is do- ing, Over the Edge will

continue bringing the

To those of you who made the New Year's resolution to

become more involved with your student body, we look for- ward to reading your incoming submissions to the greatest student paper in the country, We do have editorial pos- itions open and anyone interested in joining our fantastic team can find information regarding these open positions by checking out the bar on the left hand side of this page. Any position with the word vacant underneath is a pos- ition we are accepting applications for. Anyone looking to apply needs to send us a resume as well as writing samples by either emailing us at over-the-edge@unbe.ca or com-

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Other than that, 2010 is here! I hope it’s going well for you. It has been the greatest decade of my life so far. Excep of course for the fact that my beloved Texans didn't get to] go to the playoffs thanks to the lousy Bengals refusing to} show up against the Jets. Thankfully, karma being the de- lightful maiden she is, the Bengals just got knocked out o the playoffs in the first round. Excluding Dr. Johnny Fever| and maybe Venus Fly Trap, there is nothing good in Cin- cinnati. Good luck this semester y’all! I wish you nothing but the bottom of the net for this new decade.

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The Biggest Announcement at UNBC since its

creation!!!

UNBC students are going to eat free food. On the 7th and 8th of February - Wednesday and Thursday - two health care companies are giving presentations at UNBC. A free lasagna dinner will be provided at the event, cour- tesy of the Northern UnderGraduate Student Society (NUGSS).

What is really going on? It’s quite simple - the fourth and second last step in selecting a health care company for UNBC students. As you may know, many students at UNBC have basic medical coverage « in BC this is called the MSP: Medical Services Plan. The MSP covers the essentials, but not much else. In other words, basic things like surgery if a mutant goat eats your nose, an occasion- al eye test, a trip to the doc- tor, and all that jazz. But

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dents. Students pay into a plan at the beginning of the year and get “certain things” covered, such as a percent- age of your prescriptions. But what gets covered depends on “who* covers you.

Of course, UNBC is a small school and most big health care insurance agencies are not interested in signing a contract with NUGSS, Because of this fact, NUGSS isn’t talking to Sun Life or Blue Cross, but rather smaller firms who act mediators between the student socienty and larger companies,

Selecting a broker isn't easy. For the last three years NUGSS tried and failed. Now things are different, and sur- prisingly energetic group of seven undergraduate stu- dents (including a NUGSS director) sat down in September and started talk-

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the course of a dayf and a half the health care group did a su vey - and got an amaz- ing response: over 400 fz) ~~ people participated. You may have seen us

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NUGSS, and they had a pretty clear pattern, Many student's were not covered: and they wanted to go to the 7, dentist! 7

By this time one of the three companies