2288 T HTEh QeU QEuENeSe nCOsU CRoIEuRr •i eArPR •IL A13P, R20IL1 71 3, 2017 FOFRO RB BRREEAAKKIINNGG NNEEWWSS VVIISSITIT W wWwWw..QqNnsS..cCoOmM sun THE QUEENS editorial WWW.COURIERSUN.COM PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ARTIST SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH RON TORINA EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI DEBORAH CUSICK CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: [email protected] for advertising e-mail: [email protected] Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Queens Courier All letters sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and offi ce telephone numbers, where available, as well as affi liation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AS WELL AS OP-ED PIECES IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PAPER’S POSITION. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE QUEENS COURIER. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE QUEENS COURIER within fi ve days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold THE QUEENS COURIER and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. EARLY SPRING ON THE LIC WATERFRONT // PHOTO BY MELANIE POZARYCKI Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! To submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, visit our Facebook page, tweet @QNS or email [email protected] (subject: Queens Snaps). Onward & upward with free college Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once referred to states as “laboratories of democracy,” and without question, New York is one of the largest and greatest of these laboratories that the nation has ever known. It comes as no surprise that our latest experiment, providing tuition-free four-year college to qualifi ed students, tackles one of the greatest problems young Americans face today: staggering student debt. Th e Excelsior Scholarship will allow students from families whose annual income is less than $125,000 to attend a four-year public university (SUNY or CUNY) free of cost. No other state has anything like it; this bold venture that Governor Andrew Cuomo and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced earlier this year in Long Island City is a real game-changer that has the potential to truly help generations of New Yorkers succeed academically and fi nancially. Nearly six in 10 college students attending a four-year school in New York State are in debt, according to a report from Th e Institute for College Access and Success. Th e average college student in the Empire State owes just under $30,000 for their four-year education. Not every college graduate makes signifi cant money upon graduation either. Glassdoor, a popular job search engine, reported that the entry level job in the New York City area has an average annual salary of about $32,000. Factor in living expenses, and it can take many college graduates more than a decade beyond graduation to pay off their debts. Th e Excelsior Scholarship has the potential to prevent thousands of college students across the state from falling into debt, giving these students the opportunity to pump millions of dollars back into the local economy. Th ey can also start saving funds toward making major purchases such as buying a home or car. Critics of the program fear this will drive New York students away from private universities statewide. New York state provides to students of private colleges and universities more than $253 million in aid annually. Th at aid isn’t going away, but we believe the state should increase aid beyond the Excelsior Scholarship as much as possible to ensure that New York’s undergrads can aff ord to attend the college of their choice. CUNY, once upon a time, off ered free four-year college to New York City students; that practice came to an end during the fi scal crisis of the 1970s. By no means is that a harbinger of the Excelsior Scholarship’s future; New York City had far worse fi nancial problems that were caused by factors beyond its education system. Th e Excelsior Scholarship, however, can become the national model that helps eradicate our nation’s student debt problem. We wish it success; the future of this country might well be depending on it. STORY: SUV runs off the road and crashed into a pedestrian on an Astoria street SUMMARY: An SUV ran off of an Astoria road and into a pedestrian who was walking down the street. REACH: 21,122 (as of 4/10/17) Publisher & E ditor Victoria Schneps-Yunis Co-Publisher Joshua A. Schneps Associate Publisher Bob Brennan E ditor-In-Chief Robert Pozarycki VP, Events, Web & Social Media Amy Amato-Sanchez Art Director Nirmal Singh Artist Ron Torina S ocial Media Manager Emily Davenport S taff Reporters Katrina Medoff, Anthony Giudice, Angela Matua Suzanne Monteverdi Contributing Reporters Cliff Kasden, Samantha Sohmer, Elizabeth Aloni Assistant to Publisher Deborah Cusick Classified Manager Celeste Alamin Controller Maria Valencia President & CEO Victoria Schneps-Yunis Vice President Joshua A. Schneps Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: [email protected] for advertising e-mail: [email protected] Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Courier Sun All letters sent to THE COURIER SUN should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and office telephone numbers, where available, as well as affiliation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. No such ad or any may be reproduced without prior permission of THE COURIER SUN. The publishers for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE COURIER SUN within five days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. VIctoria Media Services assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold The Courier SUN and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement.
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