{"id":3322,"date":"2010-06-12T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2010-06-12T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:59:37","slug":"legal-ksu-students-pay-price-for-heeding-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/legal-ksu-students-pay-price-for-heeding-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal KSU students pay price for heeding law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Marietta Daily Journal<\/em><br \/>\nLetter to the editor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legal KSU students pay price for heeding law<\/strong><br \/>\nJune 11, 2010  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DEAR EDITOR:<\/p>\n<p>I was a Kennesaw State University student and graduated in December 2005. At the time I was not a permanent resident. I was a legal resident of Georgia for over 12 months before I signed up for my first course. I was charged out-of-state tuition. I was also told by the Office of Registrar that I was not eligible for financial aid. I was always under impression that all non-US citizens are charged out-of-state fees even though you have been a resident (in my case, legal) of Georgia for over 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing all the news about Jessica Colotl, I am quite angry. Not because I was charged higher tuition, but because an illegal alien was given government benefits and I was not. Why? For following the law? I am sure I am not the only one here. Maybe other U.S. citizens (non-Georgia residents) were charged more than Ms. Colotl (and many such illegals). To all those who stress that we need bright people like Ms. Colotl, let me stress that I got 3.9 GPA. I am still less &#8220;important&#8221; than illegals here. <\/p>\n<p>I have asked the Kennesaw State University&#8217;s Registrars office and the Board of Regents office for an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Now after four-plus years, it all seems old, but I am still upset that you get penalized for following the law, and get preferential treatment for ignoring it.<\/p>\n<p>Radhika Tulpule<br \/>\nMarietta <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdjonline.com\/view\/full_story\/7884620\/article-Legal-KSU-students-pay-price-for-heeding-law?instance=secondary_story_left_column\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marietta Daily Journal Letter to the editor Legal KSU students pay price for heeding law June 11, 2010 DEAR EDITOR: I was a Kennesaw State University student and graduated in December 2005. At the time I was not a permanent resident. I was a legal resident of Georgia for over 12 months before I signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}