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Banks and other financial firms are taking advantage of a variety of opportunities to form partnerships with colleges and universities to produce campus student ID cards and to offer student aid disbursements on debit or prepaid cards. In addition to on-campus services, such as student ID functions offered on the card, some cards offer traditional debit card services linked to bank accounts; other cards provide additional reloadable prepaid card functions. The disbursement of financial aid and university refunds is the most significant partnership identified.
This summer we're running voter registration drives at concerts and music festivals across Maryland, and we'd love your help.
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Here's my statement on the failure to move debate forward on a bill to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling this July.
The loans distributed by the U.S. Department of Education currently hold an interest rate of 3.4 percent. But that rate is set to double if Congress fails to act by July 1, 2012. If that occurs, millions of students will see their interest rates soar to 6.8 percent on the new loans they take in the next year thereby causing a steep rise in their loan burden and effectively increasing the cost of attaining a college degree.
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Members of the Terps Vote Coalition, including MaryPIRG, SGA, Campus Democrats and Campus Republicans, registered more than twice the number of voters compared to 2006.
A coalition of students from campus groups like MaryPIRG, APO, and The LOVE Movement formed the Food Recovery Network to donate food to needy charities in DC.
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