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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.
The University of Georgia has been buffeted by sexual harassment scandals in the last year. One professor has resigned, another was placed on administrative leave, and the women’s golf coach left under a cloud.
In response, the university has initiated a massive restructuring of its sexual harassment investigation procedures, a restructuring that has attracted criticism and is still ongoing.
Given this context, the administration’s decision to invite Clarence Thomas to be the undergraduate commencement speaker this spring has proven predictably controversial.
The Tapped blog reported today that the Daily Pennsylvanian of the University of Pennsylvania had endorsed Hillary Clinton, calling the nod Clinton’s first “major college paper endorsement.”
Actually, according to the University Wire, the Pennsylvanian is the fourth college paper to endorse Hillary, joining the UT Daily Texan, Boston University’s Daily Free Press, and the George Washington University GW Hatchet.
That doesn’t mean it’s a contest, though — UW says Obama has 45 campus newspaper endorsements so far.
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