4 Apr. 7-Apr.
27, 2010 | The Tower
Massive Flooding Cripples Kean’s Tuition Service
By Joseph Tingle
Record flooding shut down Kean’s Rhode
Island-based tuition service last week, just
as the deadline for monthly tuition pay-
ments was due. Kean students, however,
don’t need to worry about negative conse-
quences for any late April payments.
According to Tuition Management Sys-
tems’ website at afford.com, students
who hadn’t made their monthly payment
before the deadline on April 1 won’t be
charged with any service fees or penalties.
KEAN REFLECTS ON OBAMA PRESIDENCY
is able to transform the American politi-
cal system and make large-scale change
within the American community.
He cited political scientist Michael
Nelson, who talked about “presidents of
achievement.” According to Nelson, three
criteria need to be met, in order for a pres-
ident to be called a president of achieve-
ment. The three criteria a president needs
to meet are big ideas, public support, and
passing issues through congress.
“The passage of the healthcare bill last
Sunday was such a significant event,” pro-
fessor Treusch said. “If he had not been
able to achieve that, if that had been put
off until next year, the chances of the
Obama presidency being a success would
probably have been very small.”
Dr. Chang, who was the first to deliver
his opening statement among the panel,
said if he was to engage in the Obama
panel discussion prior to Sunday’s passing
A Student Accounting employee at
Kean also said that students who have
made all of their other payments won’t
have their schedules dropped as a result
of late payments. According to a Tuition
Management Systems’ customer service
representative, Kean and TMS have been
in contact, and Kean has been informed of
the situation regarding their tuition man-
agement service.
Tuition Management Systems’ website
went down with internet servers all over
Rhode Island.
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of the Healthcare Reform bill, his assess-
ment of the Obama presidency could be
a little different. Dr. Kelly was in agree-
ment with this standpoint, expressing
similar sentiment.
“A month ago, my analysis of the presi-
dency was a lackluster presidency,” Dr.
Kelly said.
Though Dr. Kelly did not agree with the
idea of Obama being a “transformational
president”, he believes Obama to be more
of a “good” president. Some of the issues
he touched on were the Healthcare reform
bill and how Obama needed to succeed at
negotiations with Russia on nuclear weap-
ons, the issue of foreign policy, and our
involvement in the Middle East.
Subsequent to Dr. Kelly was Dr. Kahn.
He began by thanking the audience for
such a great turnout before getting into
his part of the discussion. Like the other
panelists, Dr. Kahn discussed the Health-
The flooding, which began early last
week, continued for three days and rep-
resents the worst flooding that has taken
place in Rhode Island for two centuries. It
also affected other areas in New England.
What costs the flood will have on Rhode
Island and the rest of New England re-
mains to be seen, though last time Rhode
Island flooded—a drastically less potent
flood—businesses alone lost upwards of
$750,000, according to an article at NPR.
org, National Public Radio’s website.
On April 1, Tuition Management Sys-
care Reform bill.
Dr. Kahn said that the healthcare bill
would determine President Obama’s place
in history, and that the vote for the health-
care bill was comparable to social security
for Franklin D. Roosevelt and medicare for
Lyndon Johnson.
According to Dr. Kahn, the passing of
healthcare reform on Sunday, probably
saved the House of Representatives from
going Republican, especially with the nu-
ances that took place during the eventual
passing of the bill, like President Obama’s
bargaining with pro-life democratic repre-
sentative Bart Dupak.
As the panel turned over to the audience
for questions, the discussion switched to
the “protagonist/antagonist” mentality
that the Republican and Democratic Party
seem to share about each other.
Dr. Chang said in one of his political sci-
ence classes, a student described the rela-
tems’ customer service representatives,
were not sure when the tuition company’s
servers would be back up, but were hope-
ful that it would be sometime this week.
Tuition Management Systems is the
service used by Kean University for all
tuition and housing related matters.
Students who want to pay their tuition
must do so at the Student Accounting of-
fice, or through the TMS via afford.com or
snail-mail.
tionship between both parties as a nasty
divorce, with the American people as the
children being caught in between.
All in all, the panel discussion was a
well-informed dissection of Obama as
President of the United States, taking a
retrospective approach, going as far back
as to the day he was inaugurated, to fore-
shadowing the impending question of a
possible second term for our 44th presi-
dent of the United States.
The panel discussion concluded with the
audience receiving a parting gift, which
was a booklet of the constitution called
“The U.S. Constitution And Fascinating
Facts About It” from Pi Sigma Alpha. The
booklet encompassed of everything from
facts about the founding fathers, the con-
stitution, the Supreme Court to the actual
Constitution and its amendments.