By Anastasia Millicker / News Editor
Police arrested 36 students yesterday, including Rutgers University Student Assembly President Matt Cordeiro after a four-hour rally outside of Sallie Mae Corporation headquarters on 7th Street in Northwest, D.C.
“Sallie Mae, you can’t hide, we can see your greedy side,” protesters chanted from the streets outside the headquarters with about 300 students blocking the street in front of headquarters.
Navya Lakkaraju, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said the march was just one of the several actions that occurred during the 43rd annual United States Student Assembly Conference.
Lakkaraju said she was in charge of blocking off an intersection, with the help of about 300 students of USSA.
Cordeiro was one of the 36 students arrested during the Sallie Mae protest when he and a group of students sat in front of the entrance of the building. Donggu Yoon, a New Jersey United Students member, and Bryan Miranda, a first-year RUSA Livingston Campus representative, were also arrested during the protest.
During the weekend’s 43rd Annual Grassroots Legislative Conference, students and members of the USSA across the country gathered to lobby to their legislators on Capitol Hill on issues affecting students, including student loan debts.
“Students loans debt is becoming a problem,” Cordeiro said. “There are interest rates really hurt students who are struggling to pay back their loans, some of them reaching over $70,000 to $80,000 loans.”
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