Alison Savignano (Brockton, MA)

OSSA's Political Committee focuses on publiicizing issues pertaining to Out-of-State students like tuition and community involvement. Out primary goals are to advocate predictable and reasonable increases in tuition for Out-of-State students and to suggest other methods of income in place of sizable increases.

Over the 2007-2008 School Year, the Political Committee has:

• staged the 3rd successful tuition letter writing campaign to Chancellor Moeser
• developed and promoted a tuition petition for fair and predictable increases (still available on OSSA website)
• staged OSSA's 3rd Student Body President Debate Forum

Jamie Sebaaly (Lancaster, NY)

The Good Deeds Committee plans service events for members of OSSA so that we can give back to the local community and have fun getting to know other out-of-staters at the same time. During the fall 2005 semester, we had many successful community service events. We gardened in the arboretum, performed home/garden repairs for clients of a Helping Hand, and organized students to donate meals to the homeless of Franklin Street, as well as keeping members informed of other volunteer opportunities at UNC.

Jamie Sebaaly (Lancaster, NY)

The services committee is designated to take care of whatever needs out-of-state students feel like they have while navigating through college. Some specific ideas and projects we've come up with are shuttles to grocery stores or Target, compiling a OSSA Survival Guide that informs students new to the Chapel Hill area about local restaurants, late night destinations and slang, and helping OSSAers store their stuff over the summer. If you have any suggestions for services that we can provide for out-of-state students, let us know!