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WEEKLYPRESS.COM ·
UCREVIEW.COM · OCTOBER 26 · 2011
Friends Select Students, Fac- ulty and Par- ents Get Real About Cyber- bullying ADL holds a series of edu- cational work- shops on the importance of behaving responsibly
online By Haywood Brewster Staff Reporter
On Monday, October 24, Friends Select upper school students participated in an interactive workshop on cyberbullying and social networking behavior led by facilitators from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The purpose of the workshop was to increase understanding and aware- ness about the problem of cyberbullying and the chal- lenges associated with social networking.
PHEAA Reminds Recent Col- lege Graduates to Plan for Re-
payment of Student Loan Debt Spring graduates are approaching the
end of their six-month grace period
By Hayward Brewster Staff Reporter
T Students brainstorm and role play ways to challenge cyberbullying.
To start, there was an icebreaker to get students thinking about their per- sonal experience with tech- nology and cyberbullying. The students then reviewed a case study about the im- pact of cyberbullying and had conversations about cyberbullying’s impact in FSS students’ and their friends’ lives.
One of the interactive
activities of the morning encouraged students to role play ways to chal- lenge cyberbullying. The students were tasked with identifying the reasons for the cyberbullying described in a scenario; discussed the impact of cyberbullying on the individuals and the po- tential negative impacts; and came up with alternatives to the behavior and rewrote the scenarios focusing on the perspective of the bystander.
The workshops ended with students forming groups and coming up with action plans and personal commit- ments.
During the student work- shops, Friends Select faculty attended their own session also led by facilitators from the ADL that covered the same issues with an empha- sis on how to address cyber- bullying with students. On Wednesday, October 26 at 6 p.m. in the Blauvelt The- atre, the ADL and Friends Select Parent Association will be holding a workshop for parents where similar topics will be covered with
a focus on prevention and intervention. The purpose of the parent workshop is to help educate and empower adult family members to effectively discuss and re- spond to their teens’ experi- ences with cyberbullying and social networking sites. The overall goal of ADL’s education efforts around cy- berbullying is to help create informed youth populations who understand the impor- tance of behaving responsi- bly and ethically online and who are motivated to chal- lenge cyberbullying in their schools and online social networking communities.
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he Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) is advising May/June college graduates that their federal student loan six-month grace period will end in November/December and repayment of this loan debt will begin. Graduates typically take advantage of the six-month grace period to find employment and get their finances in order before beginning repayment of their stu- dent loans. “There are several loan repayment options for borrow- ers to choose from,” said Representative William Adolph, PHEAA Board Chairman. “PHEAA customer service staff is available to discuss repayment plans directly with borrow- ers to help them determine which plan best matches their individual circumstances.” Student loan repayment plans offer various benefits such as Graduated Repayment with payments that are initially lower but increase later in the repayment schedule or the Income- Based Repayment plan with monthly payments based on loan debt, income and number of people in a household. Borrowers who are having difficulty securing employ- ment or who have recently lost their job should contact their loan servicer to determine if they are eligible for an economic hardship or unemployment deferment or for- bearance which could temporarily suspend their monthly payments under certain circumstances, until their financial situation improves. Interest continues to accrue on all fed- eral and private loans even if a deferment or forbearance suspends monthly payments. The only exceptions are on Subsidized Stafford Loans and Subsidized Consolidation Loans on which the federal government pays the interest during periods of deferment.
“Contacting your loan servicer to discuss your options should take place sooner rather than later,” said Senator Wayne D. Fontana, PHEAA Board Vice Chairman. “Falling behind in student loan payments can have serious conse- quences and it is a priority to help borrowers avoid loan delinquency or default.” PHEAA conducts its student loan servicing activities as FedLoan Servicing and American Education Services (AES). The secure borrower portals at
MyFedLoan.org and aes-
Success.org provide additional information on available repayment plans, allows customers to submit secure online payments, and offers an Eligibility Quiz to help borrowers learn which deferment or forbearance options may best suit their current circumstances and provides the option of downloading the appropriate form. Borrowers should ac- cess the appropriate borrower portal depending on which
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