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Gary C. Sing, a graduate student studying neuroengineering, started a petition last Wednesday to protest the $35 per semester fee that students face if they choose to pay their room and board in monthly installments rather than through a lump sum.
Sing said that he sees his petition as a way to help people realize that they can speak out against University policies.
McCullough said that 1,730 students are currently paying under the monthly plan. At press time, 41 had signed Sing’s online petition.
Eventually, they started a police department, led by chief Irl Stambaugh. Kaylene Johnson, author of Sarah, a Palin biography published earlier this year, says one place where the power group met was a step-aerobics class that Stambaugh and Stein took along with Palin. That class signed the original petition...
2 | Vermont Legalize It? College presidents from nearly 100 U.S. universities, including Duke, Tufts and Texas A&M, have signed a petition to lower the national drinking age, saying current laws encourage a culture of clandestine binge-drinking among students younger than 21. Known as the Amethyst Initiative, the coalition...