FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com THE COURIER SUN • JANUARY 5, 2017 15 Cuomo & Bernie in LIC to pitch free college tuition plan Bernie Sanders and Governor Andrew Cuomo announce a plan for tuition-free college in Long Island City. BY ANGELA MATUA [email protected]/@AngelaMatua Governor Andrew Cuomo and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced a plan in Long Island City on Tuesday to introduce tuition-free state and city college. Cuomo and Sanders came to La Guardia Community College to talk about the Excelsior Scholarship, which would provide students who are attending two-year and four-year college programs in New York state and New York City, and whose families earn $125,000 or less, a tuition-free education. This would be the first program of its kind in the United States. Cuomo, who hails from Queens, said in a press conference that college affordability is “the most important issue that this state and nation must address.” “It is incredibly hard and getting incredibly harder to get a college education,” he said. “The average college debt is $30,000 per student. Half the student debt in New York state is higher than $30,000. That is not fair. That is not right.” The plan will start to be implemented this fall and will be officially in place by 2019 with legislative approval, according to The New York Times. The estimated cost of the Excelsior Scholarship would be $163 million; approximately 940,000 households in New York have college-aged children that could benefit from this program. Photo courtesy of office of Governor Andrew Cuomo Existing aid programs would be combined with other state money to pay for the program. The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) offers almost $1 billion statewide and New York is only one of two states to offer a program like this. The program would provide TAP and other federal grants along with other state funds to cover the remaining costs. Sanders, who made affordable college tuition a priority during his 2016 presidential run, said this plan would encourage other states to follow New York’s lead in terms of providing a college education to all students regardless of family income. “It is basically insane to tell the young people of this country, ‘We want you to go out and get the best education you can, we want you to get the jobs of the future. Oh, but by the way, after you leave school you’re going to be 30, 50, 100 thousand dollars in debt. And you’re going to have to spend decades paying off that debt,’” Sanders said. Currently, tuition at a four-year state school is $6,470 per year. At two-year community colleges, the tuition is $4,350. 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I took the phone to a store for repairs, and an employee named Tom went to the back office to examine it. While there, I believe that he accessed my photos. Then Tom disseminated them to his friends. Now, I have heard that other customers had been treated this way, too. Pursuant to the doctrine of respondeat superior, the store can be held vicariously liable for a tort committed by Tom while acting within the scope of his employment. If the facts are as you say, you appear to have a case under theories of negligence, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, prima facie tort, breach of contract, breach of warranty, and negligent hiring and supervision. You will need to show that the store knew or should have known (a) that its employees, including Tom, were removing personal information and photos without knowledge or consent or (b) at minimum, of Tom's propensity for such dastardly conduct. The store will attempt to prove that Tom was acting solely for personal motives unrelated to the furtherance of the store's business, and engaging in conduct that the store could not reasonably have expected. You will need hard evidence as to what had occurred in the past, and exactly what Tom did in the present. What you merely believe, and what you merely have heard, does not rise to the level of the underlying evidence that gave rise to your belief, and the testimony of those who have actually witnessed one or another event. Your attorney will want to find them.
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