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...agrees not to fund alcohol, it can distribute its resources at its own discretion. Ultimately, UC funding does not fall under the College’s jurisdiction. If the College administration wishes to dictate how the UC allocates its resources, they should have to do so through a vote of the FAS in order to avoid violating the 1982 UC charter. Issues of whether the Party Fund should exist notwithstanding, the College acted improperly in its refusal to respect UC privileges conferred by FAS. If the University wishes to maintain a constructive relationship with students, it should not renege previous...
...Seidel is not afraid to get into the nitty gritty—he’s willing to take on the neighborhood nuisance of leaf blowers, for example, and has criticized the vote that allocated staffers to city council members...
...result, Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist moved immediately after his January inauguration to scrap e-voter machines and return the state to paper by 2008 - to what he and most voter-rights advocates call the more trustworthy optical scan system. In that method, votes are marked on a sheet (which is retained for auditing purposes) and then electronically scanned. That system got a boost late last year when the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, issued a highly critical assessment of touch-screen in favor of optical scanning." I get a receipt when...
...hard to believe now what a darling touch-screen voting was seven years ago. After the Florida presidential vote recount debacle - which made traditional paper voting, especially the infamous "butterfly" ballots and hanging chads, look positively Third World - electronic voting was embraced as the way back from America's electoral humiliation. Some 50,000 touch-screen machines were bought in 37 states at a cost of almost a quarter of a billion dollars...
...months since he has continued to pound away on that point, adding to it his criticism of her refusal to apologize for her Iraq war vote (Edwards long ago asked for forgiveness on that same vote) and her support last month of a resolution calling on President Bush to label as terrorists the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has also come out swinging on other policy matters - voicing his opposition this week to a bipartisan bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, which he says doesn't go far enough, as well as to the Peru Free Trade Agreement before Congress...