S T U D E N T S
STUDENT POWER CHANGES LAW
Maureen Lane, Beatrice Lopez and Ginger Lopez, three Hunter students working for the Welfare Rights Initiative, are interviewed by NY1 for a story on a new state law allowing students to apply
internship and work-study hours toward their welfare work requirements. The law was passed unanimously after lobbying by the Welfare Rights Initiative and thousands of CUNY students. In
prior years, the 35-hour weekly work rules forced some 21,000 CUNY students to drop out. MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP GOES TO MORAN
Three newspapers—the Daily News, New York Post, and
Brooklyn Heights Paper—interview Max Moran, a School of Social Work student and the first recipient of the Amy Watkins Scholarship (named for the Hunter student murdered in 1999).
Moran discusses his difficult childhood in the foster-care system and his desire to improve that system through his own education. He is also featured on Channel 11 News at 10 and in an
item in The New York Times. TEENS AT WORK
Marissa Petrou and Sophia Constantinides, seniors at Hunter College High School, talk about their intensive summer and after-school
internships in The New York Observer. The article focuses on students who develop impressive work experience at a young age. WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT HUNTER
Ned Vizzini, author of Teen Angst? Naaah..., writes a humorous column for the Live & Learn section of New York Press, in which he extols a number of Hunter's virtues: "A truly
diverse student body," "The best damn voicemail system in the country," and "Available administrators," among others. The article prompts another Hunter student, Valerie Gobaira, to write
to the New York Press editor agreeing with Vizzini. GATES SCHOLARSHIP
The Brooklyn Spectator reports that senior Phyllis Pui-Sze Yip, an aspiring filmmaker, won the
Gates Millennium Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. VOTER REGISTRATION
Students from the Hunter College School of Social Work collaborated with social work
students from other schools to register voters in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in New York City, reports NASW News. More than 10,000 new voters were signed up. Return to Top |
