{"id":3335,"date":"2014-11-24T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2014-11-24T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:58:30","slug":"external-4-16-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/external-4-16-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"External 4-16-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: <\/strong>05:38 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: Stang, Thomas, Dobryznski, Connolly, Pickard, Hutchins, Lanoie <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Absences: Brehio (unexcused)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair\u2019s e-mail: uri.external@gmail.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Off-Campus Leases<\/li>\n<li>We have many leases (Anne O\u2019Brien, Durkin Cottages, Narragansett Property Management, Lila Delman, North Village Condos, 2 Private)<\/li>\n<li>Committee will highlight and review leases next week.<\/li>\n<li>Legislative Letters<\/li>\n<li>Reviewed sample articles to legislators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cDeflate the Rate\u201d articles<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a trend of cutting interest rates<\/p>\n<p>Stewart\u2019s sample letter to Senators. Committee reviewed the sample letter during meeting. Looking at format.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts: How are we going to pay off interest when it\u2019s so hard to get a job? Long-Term effects? Student debts are really bad. It\u2019s hard enough to afford tuition as it is.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Reid is on board. We will look for quotes from him.<\/p>\n<p>We should use statistics in our letter. (Not just opinionated). Perhaps we can connect them [Senators] to the problem through the statistics. Survey Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are blocking it in Senate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Committee will write letter to every senator in America to persuade not to increase interest rates on student loans.<\/li>\n<li>Lanoie will contact Economics professor on matter to figure out why this increase is happening and what are the causes.<\/li>\n<li>Unsubsidized loans vs. subsidized loans<\/li>\n<li>Committee Homework:<\/li>\n<li>All senators- Draft 1 paragraph to Senator<\/li>\n<li>Find quote from Senator Reid.<\/li>\n<li>Act expiring: College Reduction Act- Lanoie will write about.<\/li>\n<li>Student debt crisis- Hutchins<\/li>\n<li>Opening paragraph, Relating senators to us- Stang<\/li>\n<li>Next Week: MEETING AT 5:00pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: <\/strong>06:05 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 05:38 pm ATTENDANCE: Stang, Thomas, Dobryznski, Connolly, Pickard, Hutchins, Lanoie Absences: Brehio (unexcused) COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: Chair\u2019s e-mail: uri.external@gmail.com Off-Campus Leases We have many leases (Anne O\u2019Brien, Durkin Cottages, Narragansett Property Management, Lila Delman, North Village Condos, 2 Private) Committee will highlight and review leases next week. Legislative Letters Reviewed sample articles to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}