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...Given changes in the law forbidding mandatory retirement, people with tenure can continue forever and lose their effectiveness," said Fred K. Faulkes, professor of organizational behavior at BU and a member of the Tenure Discussion Group (TDG), the 10-person faculty committee formed by the provost to review the university's tenure policy...
...hope the Supreme Court will adopt the latter view of an immigrant's rights under the Constitution and the law. As the 5th Circuit noted, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights mandates that no person shall suffer "arbitrary arrest and detention." It would be a shame if the U.S. were to inflict such punishment on human beings simply because they have fallen through the cracks of a state-centered world...
...voters. Second, one must know the probabilities of a random voter voting for each candidate (i.e. polling numbers). For example, a deadlock in the polls does not mean that exactly 50 percent of people will vote for one candidate and 50 percent for another, but rather that any random person's vote behaves like the flipping of a coin. So just as you would be surprised to get exactly 50 million heads out of 100 million tosses, you would be equally surprised by a voting deadlock. Of course, as the polls become more uneven, the coin becomes lopsided...
...some say that Natapoff's definition of voting power invalidates this whole analysis. With this definition, one easy way to generate a large vote-power would be to have everyone vote, shuffle the ballots and draw one ballot that decides the election. Thus in every election one person is guaranteed to have cast the deciding vote, and the vote-power for an individual is one divided by the number of voters, a number almost always larger than either the voting power of a straight popular election or an electoral system. But if this invalidates Natapoff's point (and people...
...will we ever be rid of the electoral system? Do we even want to be? While our reasoning about voter power generally tends to be deontological (i.e. one person, one vote is inherently right), these arguments are quite utilitarian in their appeal, which seems to at once make them suspect. But if the price of freedom truly is eternal vigilance, we need to explore these practical effects of the Electoral College before we decide to dismantle a central part of our federal election system...