A Successful Day!

It was a busy and successful day for the Drake Democrats on the student loan cuts issue. We started off the day with a nice front-page picture in the Times-Delphic of us protesting Jim Nussle last Thursday. But the big event of the day was our press conference with Congressman Boswell.

We invited Congressman Boswell, who has been very helpful in providing more Pell Grants for college students, to come to Drake and hear students give their personal stories on the kinds of hardships that they have faced in affording college. We had several news outlets show up, and I know that we were shown on KCCI this evening - I can't remember who the other news groups were - if anybody knows, leave a comment on that so we can search for it. Also, school board member Ako Abdul-Samad came and talked about some of the hardships he's been hearing from young people and their families in Des Moines as they prepare to pay for college.

Both Boswell and Ako seemed to really enjoy the event and we were very happy to have them. We've been wanting to get Boswell by for quite some time and this was a really great event for him to come to. We'll get some more info up on the main website, under the press release section, and perhaps start a new page if we can find online copies of the stories that the news ran on us. Thanks so much for everyone who helped out today!