Thursday, Volume 151 9.27.2018 No. 17 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 WWW.SJSUNEWS.COM/SPARTAN_DAILY News Opinion Sports Latino Heritage Comic book Spartans look Month celebrates fans protest for fi rst season ‘sense of community’ Starfi re casting win vs. Hawaii Pages 3-4 Page 5 Page 10 Parade electrifi es campus spirit By Myla La Bine a way to get the students STAFF WRITER involved and participating in social events,” Cano said. Uniquely decorated golf “[School spirit] brings carts drove through cam- people out and [lets them] pus during the homecoming enjoy fun stuff, instead of parade on Wednesday. being locked up in their From a University dorms,” he added. Personnel cart modeled Cano said he would be after the Disney-Pixar film attending Saturday’s home- “Up” to an Information coming football game with Technology float affixed with friends and shared that he a “cloud” made of cotton was proud to be a Spartan. balls on top, there were a Behavioral science senior wide range of distinct themes Liz Garcia rushed from among the floats. a midterm to participate Led by the Division of in the parade. Student Affairs, and end- The float she rode was for ing with football play- homecoming court nomi- ers, the parade certain- nees, covered with blue and ly made noise en route to gold streamers. Seventh Street Plaza. “I’ve done the [float] Business senior Gerardo decorating portion of [the Cano happily watched the EOP] golf cart before. [I did parade near the Wellness that] last year. [However,] Center and cheered as stu- this year, [being a home- dents and faculty who partic- coming court nominee,] it ipated passed by. was more [about] student NICHOLAS ZAMORA | SPARTAN DAILY “I think the [annual] Business marketing junior Taylor Mills celebrates homecoming as marketing senior Alejandra Valesquez parade is amazing . it’s HOMECOMING | Page 2 drives the SJSU Marketing Association golf cart during the parade. Students receive India unveils new 33rd annual award health program to cover millions Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches world’s largest health insurance plan to provide free coverage By Winona Rajamohan allow four in 10 Indians to utilize STAFF WRITER secondary and tertiary care in gov- ernment and private hospitals within India’s prime minister, Narendra a family-designated insurance cap. Modi, launched the biggest health- Modi announced the launch care program in the world on Sunday, by handing out medical cards in rolling out an insurance plan in Ranchi, the capital of the Indian order to provide free coverage for state of Jharkhand. 500 million of the country’s poor- “Modicare is an ambitious proj- est citizens before national elections ect and a great electoral promise,” take place in May. senior software engineering major “Such an initiative is unparalleled in Jenil Thakker said. “This scheme is terms of scale and extent,” Modi stated clearly targeting the middle class and on his Twitter account. “It shows our the lower-middle class population in unwavering commitment to create a the rural areas which account for 80 HUAN XUN CHAN | SPARTAN DAILY healthy India.” percent of India’s population.” Consul General of Mexico, Juan Manuel Calderon Jaimes, congratulates students for their The National Health Protection Modicare is likened to eff orts in their studies and receiving the Ernesto Galarza Scholarship. Scheme, dubbed “Modicare,” has Obamacare with its approach to been structured to offer rough- universal healthcare. By Hun Xun Chan bringing attention to Galarza’s scholarship. ly 100 million low-income fam- However, unlike Obamacare that STAFF WRITER work. According to Curry, the ilies free hospital treatment to also covers middle-class families, “He was a very important scholarship is “the only long- cover costs up to $7,800 each year, Modicare targets specifically low-in- Following his death in 1984, scholar for the community,” term dedicated scholarship for according to CNN. come families in India. the Chicano/Latino Faculty scholarship coordinator Julia Mexican and Latino students,” India’s Finance minister Arun “I think healthcare in any form, for and Staff Association estab- Curry said. On Wednesday, 18 which is specifically open to Jaitley disclosed the country’s annual the U.S. – ever since Obamacare – has lished the Ernesto Galarza students were awarded for the budget on February 1, outlining the SCHOLARSHIP| scholarship in the hopes of 33rd annual Ernesto Galarza Page 2 high-reaching program that would INSURANCE | Page 2 sjsunews.com/spartan_daily 2 THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 2018 NEWS INSURANCE the annual budget. calling the program “another Moreover, the actual total white elephant in the mak- Continued from page 1 cost of the program has been ing,” citing reasonings of inconsistent from the time it Modicare skipping primary been very important for every was unveiled in the budget, healthcare, having an illogical country and even more for up to the program’s launch amount of funding to cater to India as a developing coun- this past weekend. the nation and allowing for try,” second year masters “We are not clear on widespread corruption. software engineering student how much money is need- “If the money is used well, Priyanka Subramaniam said. ed because we are doing this it will definitely help but India’s national newspaper, for the first time,” the pro- there are taxes being taken The Hindu, reported that the gram’s CEO Indu Bhushan and not being used properly,” program encompasses sec- told New Delhi Television Subramaniam said. “Modi is ondary healthcare services Limited, an Indian television a very good leader so there’s provided by skilled medical media company. a lot of belief in him and I practitioners, those for outpa- The program’s annual really do hope that he uses tient treatment and brief hos- budget for 2018 to 2019 was this for the right purposes, pital stays for serious illnesses. announced as $275 million. for healthcare.” Tertiary care under the However, Bhushan told With India’s national elec- program would account for the media company in tions expected to be held patients facing severe pain August that the figure could before next May, the coun- or terminal illnesses and go range from $826 million try’s current problems in pro- those admitted to hospitals to $1.1 billion. viding access to healthcare is for lengthened periods of An official from the expected to be a heavy focus. INFOGRAPHIC BY WINONA RAJAMOHAN illnesses with the need for National Institution for “Since we are getting close ernment data released health facilities, the program’s would require overcoming specialist doctors. Transforming India, V.K. to elections, I personally in 2017 showed that ability to adequately account current facilital challeng- Though the program has Paul, told the company fol- see Modicare as an astute India had only more than for the hiring of more medi- es in catering to the popu- high hopes on improved lowing the program’s launch tactic to gain the trust of a 1 million registered doctors cal professionals in these cen- lation with its $2.3 trillion healthcare India’s popula- that the cost would is estimat- huge chunk of India’s rural and less than 15,000 state ters without exhausting its economy. tion towing the poverty line, ed to be $481 million. population,” Thakker said. hospitals to accommodate its budget is a matter that needs “If this project is imple- Modi’s capability to carry out The program has come Thakker also said that he 1.3 billion citizens. to be addressed, the media mented correctly with his ambitious promise has under fire from India’s had come across several arti- Modicare promises to company reported. a constructive budget been questioned. oppositional parties who cles citing evidence that the revamp India’s debilitat- Data from the National plan, Modicare can have a Indian media has raised have been vocal in express- program could have a nega- ed primary health centers Health Profile also showed huge impact on the over- doubts on the program’s ing their discontent in its’ tive impact on lower-class cit- by providing funding for that the country spends a lit- all health system of India,” capacity to carry through ability to deliver. izens by making them spend 150,000 health and wellness tle over 1 percent of its gross Thakker said. with paying for premiums of New Delhi’s ruling Aam more than those who do not centers across the country. domestic product on health. affected families, given the Aadmi Party released a state- utilize the insurance scheme. With understaffing being The successful imple- Follow Winona on Twitter amount that is allocated in ment on their Twitter account According to CNN, gov- a major problem in India’s mentation of the program @winonaarjmh HOMECOMING After seeing how happy really hard [on the float] all the individuals who partici- night,” he added. Continued from page 1 pated last year were, she said Panahi also shared that she was excited to participate sentiment, “We’ve been involvement,” Garcia in this year’s parade. working so hard, night and said about her role in the IT Project Director day to win first place.” parade this year. Maggie Panahi and Network Students cheered excited- Psychology senior Kayla Analyst Jack Harding sat ly once the parade made its Harper-Alvarez, who is a in the front of their elab- way escorted by police down homecoming court nom- orately themed “Legacy to Seventh Street Plaza. inee, drove the Gender Future” golf cart, which A clear path between Equity Center float, themed featured technology. students and floats were after “V-Day.” Phones and video cameras made, and everyone’s The Gender Equity Center from the early 2000s were on attention went toward puts on a yearly production sides of the float, along with the Event Center.