The Ongoing Student Loan Crisis

Yesterday's NY Times ran an article about the continuing issues with student loan providers. The Government Accountability Office's recent report on the Department of Education's failure to prevent wrongdoing by lenders.

This is a story on the national news that directly affects college students. But how many college students even know that this is an issue? Certainly most college newspapers aren't covering it.

It's not an issue of lack of information -- it's covered in national newspapers. It seems more likely to be a question that student editors don't know how to cover the issue. Most of them can't afford to send a reporter on down to D.C. for a couple of interviews at the GAO.

But why not call the GAO's public relations office and ask them to email a copy of their press releases? After all, I can't imagine there is a college student with absolutely no access to a cell phone with free long distance and email -- even a friend's.