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Students Protest Tuition Hikes at SUNY Schools
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November 06, 2009
Student protests
Students are taking to the streets to protest the tuition hikes and budget cuts at the State University of New York. Last week, students assailed Gov. David Paterson’s plan to cut $90 million, or 3 percent of SUNY’s annual operating budget in the middle of the year. Rallies were held on 13 campuses around the state as part of the Many Voices, One SUNY campaign.
The next set of rallies will take place at Hudson Valley Community College and the University at Albany.
Over 10,000 signatures were collected during the two-day period on a petition headed for Paterson’s office and hundreds of calls were also made to legislative offices in Albany.
“10,000 signatures means 10,000 students are aware of what’s going on. Albany cannot ignore this,” Cariann Quick, director of governmental relations for the SUNY Student Assembly and graduate student at SUNY Albany, said in a prepared statement.
The vast majority of a tuition bump this fall went to the state’s dwindling coffers, rather than back to the schools.
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Amaris0123
11 days ago
Education is very much important because it give us knowledge that we can use in our day to day living. But the price if education today is now expensive. That's why there are some student who would apply for payday loan just to meet their needs. But a lot of people complain that all payday lenders lead people into a payday loan trap. It can hardly be stated that it isn't possible – but the number of people in a payday loan trap is miniscule compared to the people in a credit card trap, and which of those industries benefited from the bailout? Going to an installment loan or short term loan lender (whatever you want to call them – po-tay-to, puh-tah-to) is just like any other lender – you want to only borrow funds occasionally, and get on a payment plan. The less debt you have, the better – and to avoid getting into a payday loan trap, you want to budget correctly and spend less than you're used to.