Student group calls for better university financial transparency
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More than a dozen students attempted to rally the support of university administrators and their peers Friday to combat student debt.
The campus chapter of economic justice advocacy group Student Labor Action Project called on university President Wallace Loh to support a three-year tuition freeze within the University System of Maryland and to make public the university’s contract with Capital One Financial Corporation. Starting at about 11 a.m., the students chanted and held signs in front of the Main Administration Building, planning to deliver a petition to Loh.
The demand for a halt on tuition hikes was a response to the state General Assembly’s decision to keep tuition increases at 3 percent for the fifth consecutive year. The group aims to garner Loh’s support to influence a plea deal, said Chris Bangert-Drowns, a freshman biochemistry major and SLAP member.
“In the U.S., college affordability is a joke,” Bangert-Drowns said. “And we want to change that.”
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Article from The New Indian Express:
When he first spotted his customer outside an apartment in upscale Nandanam, call taxi driver Eashwaran felt he had hit pay dirt. Even as she directed him to the place, he said that she sounded like a ‘weight-aana-party’ (parlance for a rich and possibly well-tipping customer). “She was very well-dressed, wearing modern clothes, big cooling glasses and continued to talk in Hindi on her large, coloured (smart) phone,” he said, recalling that day a couple of months ago.
After getting in, she confirmed his impression of her by breezily telling him that she needed to make a few stops across the city before returning home to Tiruvanmiyur. Already doing the mental math about how much of his daily earning he could make off her, he happily obliged. First stop, a boutique at T Nagar. Then, a tailor at Egmore. Two hours later, she directed him to Ampa Skywalk Mall where she said she needed to make a quick stop. “I had already informed the company to hold other bookings as she had agreed to the six-hour package deal,” he grunted.
Enamoured by the bill, which had just inched past `1,000 (mostly courtesy the waiting), he even refused her offer of a crisp `20 note for lunc…………………continues on The New Indian Express
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