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In a 6-3 vote yesterday, the United States Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls. Six other states — Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Michigan, and South Dakota — currently have such laws on the books.
Because students frequently maintain driver’s licenses from their city or state of origin, such laws can make it difficult for students to prove residency when voting in their campus community.
In a January press release, the executive director of the Student Association for Voter Empowerment, an advocacy group, said, “I know from hundreds of conversations, testimony at our hearing, and evidence on the ground that voter ID laws have deterred out-of-state residents from voting where they attend school nine months of the year.”
Update: An article on the ruling’s effect on students and youth.
There’s talk at the University of South Florida about merging or downgrading the school’s Women’s Studies Department, Africana Studies Department, and the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean. This blog is trying to stop it.
According to the blog, the USF Women’s Studies Department has been around for 35 years, and is “the only free-standing department of Women’s Studies in the State of Florida.”
The 31 protesters arrested in the Penn State admin building sit-in earlier this month will be charged with “defiant criminal trespass,” police announced Friday. The charge is a third-degree misdemeanor, and carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine.
Penn State United Students Against Sweatshops plans a rally for the arrested students at 2 pm this Thursday, May 1.
An online petition in support of the students and contact information for the president of PSU can be found here.
The Columbia University takeover of 1968 began forty years ago this week. The anniversary has been commemorated in the pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as on Democracy Now.
studentactivism.net 
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