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Students who face disciplinary action may request that the SFJB hear their case. If the Ad Board does not object, the case will automatically be heard by the SFJB. If it does object, the SFJB will still decide the case unless a majority of its members vote not to decide the case...
...politics: In 2005, a high school senior was elected mayor of a town of 9,000. The same year, two University of Pennsylvania students were elected mayors of small towns outside Pittsburgh. Sievers, for her part, not only attained a county position but also gathered an impressive 21,000 votes. Sievers’s opponent—who was ousted after three consecutive terms—was quick to declare that “brainwashed college kids” had elected “a teenybopper for a treasurer.” But there was more to Sievers?...
...autonomy proposal is being spearheaded by independent Shi'ite lawmaker and former governor of the province, Wael Abdel-Latif al-Fadel, and its timing - Iraqis are to vote in January in what promise to be hotly contested provincial elections - is sure to escalate political tensions. Al-Fadel, a 58-year-old former judge, has filed a petition with the Iraqi Electoral Commission containing 34,800 signatures, or 2% of the province's population (as required by law). After the Commission publicizes the official request through the media this week, its backers must garner an additional 139,200 signatures to meet...
...military operations to continue in Iraq after Dec. 31, when the U.N. mandate expires. But it's too early to pop the champagne. The bilateral U.S.-Iraqi security pact is by no means a done deal: it must still be ratified by a fractured parliament. The Cabinet vote had only one nay to 27 ayes, but nine Cabinet members chose to withdraw from the final tally, a foreboding sign of the controversy the agreement will face in the legislature...
...predicting what an undergraduate experience will be like. "Even high-performing institutions as measured by average benchmark scores have work to do to improve the experience of all students," says Alex McCormick, NSSE's director and a professor of education at Indiana University. (See pictures of how teens would vote...