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Volume 79 Issue 21	Thursday, May 1, 2008

Latest News

Advocacy Party Sweeps SA Elections


	Seventeen percent of the campus population voted in the Student Association elections. The Advocacy Party won all of the top seats. Photo by Photo by Caitlin Burke. Enlarge

By Victoria Story, Editor-In-Chief

With the conclusion of the Student Association elections on Wednesday, April 23, the mandatory student activity fee was passed and current Vice President of Academic Affairs and Governance Ben Olsen was elected SA President.

The student activity fee was upheld to remain mandatory by a vote of 1,092 to 153.

Almost 1,300...

NEWS

Federal Law to Boost Student Loans

By Lisa Burdzy, Contributing Writer

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008 on April 17, by a vote of 383-27. Among other things, this bill would help students become eligible for up to $2,000 more annually in federal loans.

The bill has not yet come under consideration...

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The New Paltz Oracle holds assignment meetings every Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Building, room 417. Articles, photographs and illustrations are assigned to the pool of staff and contributors.

Deadlines for submissions by staff and contributors are Friday at 5 p.m. in The Oracle newsroom in the Student Union Building (SUB) room 417.

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