'Ambition Penalty' Sparks Protests by Kent State Students
Trustees' decision to bring Kent State pricing structure in line with other Ohio universities upsetting to those with heavy course loads.
Kent native Lucy Merriman attends Kent State University for free, but she’s so upset about the new “ambition penalty” to be charged to fellow students taking more than 17 credit hours that she spent nearly 12 hours Monday protesting the move. Merriman, a freshman Honors College student, staged the first of two protests set for this week outside the suite of university administrative offices located at the Kent State Library. Not long after arriving at 9 a.m. Merriman learned President Lester Lefton was not in his office Monday. But that didn’t deter her and numerous other concerned students from talking with passers-by about the new fee structure and encouraging them to sign a petition started by student Michael Crowley, whose group will …
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Kasha Legeza
9:35 am on Tuesday, April 10, 2012
On a related note, here's Kent State student William John Liptak's protest appeal in the form of a CNN iReport: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-773014?ref=feeds%2Flatest more ›