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I mean every moment we had we were in the General Assembly, but we did it in a manner that caught the attention of the different legislators.

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Basically we talked to them one on one, asked them for a few minutes, let them know why we were against it, and it was just something that we heard from daily from the students.

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I'd be walking across campus: Raj, please, listen to what I have to say. My family's a small farming family from eastern North Carolina. Five hundred dollars is a great deal of money for us.

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If that goes up there's a good chance I won't be coming back next semester.

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We heard that loud and clear and it was our mission to, not only for NC State but for the other universities and the other presidents we knew and had relationships [with],

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we brought them up and we lobbied together to stop it, and fortunately we were able to stop it.