An article from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

[Douglas R. Massengill, Jr.]

As I have argued to the North Carolina Democratic Party State Executive
Committee (I led the 650 member body toward defeating a resolution calling
for the repeal of the tuition grant), the NC House Education Committee, and
Paul Leubke himself, the grant should not be repealed for NCSSM Students.
The grant at NCSSM should be studied as a test case of how to reward bright
young people across the state.

A lot of people don't know that Paul Leubke's son graduated from NCSSM.  As
such Rep. Leubke knows how hard NCSSM students work and how valuable the
students as well as the institution are to the State of North Carolina.  It
makes me wonder if Rep. Leubke isn't having a memory lapse that is
preventing him from seeing the benefits of this grant, not only for the
State of North Carolina, but for his own House district.  

I encourage you all to ask Mr. Leubke to reconsider.

Warmest Regards,
Douglas R. Massengill, Jr. '06
Vice-President
North Carolina Federation of College Democrats
North Carolina State University
North Carolina Teaching Fellow
Political Science Education
Non-Profit Studies
doug.massengill at gmail.com
(919) 749-0492
 

-----Original Message-----
From: alumni-bounces at ncssm.net [mailto:alumni-bounces at ncssm.net] On Behalf
Of Joseph N. Hall
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:30 PM
To: alumni at ncssm.net
Subject: Re: An article from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

So, I've never piped up on this.

It's a nice freebie, but I don't think it's necessary. I do think that
students from NCSSM should get free tuition to into the UNC system if
they need it in any way, and they shouldn't have to jump through hoops
to get it. But I agree that the blanket grant has a funny smell to it,
and on its face it is unfair to bright students elsewhere in the state
who aren't attending NCSSM.

  -j

On 4/9/07, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Jane Stancill and Lynn Bonner, Staff Writers
>
> Free tuition facing scrutiny
> For the third time, opponents are lining up against a law that grants free
tuition at UNC campuses for graduates of the N.C. School of Science and
Mathematics, the prestigious state boarding school in Durham.
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