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...Last July the University of Georgia lost a lawsuit filed by female students who were denied admission because of an affirmative-action policy that favored men. Says junior Shanna Norris, 20: "It's not fair that a boy would get extra weight (in the admissions index) over a girl, but it would be better if there were more boys on campus...
...then to recruit more guys? At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recruiters aggressively tout math and science programs - traditionally popular among male applicants. Chicago's DePaul University (59% female) sends out extra mailings to boys...
...unionize. But these arguments fail to take into account the large amounts of menial work graduate students perform, often in departments completely unrelated to their field. Shouldering clerical duties for a professor does not enhance the edification of graduate students--if anything, the work detracts from their studies. These extra tasks should bestow graduate students the right to collective bargaining...
...Lawrence took the ECAC-leading Big Green to an extra period on Sunday to get the point in the standings, almost ending Dartmouth's 10-game unbeaten streak...
...will. Because next week, Clark plans to rule whether or not to toss out a very big stack of absentee ballots from Seminole County after Republican operatives filled out missing information on absentee ballot applications. Local Democratic activists charge that the extra help - mostly with voter ID numbers left off the form - constitutes improper conduct and discrimination against Democratic applicants, whose similarly incomplete forms were presumably rejected...