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Another point of focus during the meeting was diversity within the Faculty. Smith said that he had fielded some comments about how the ballot to elect five new members to the Faculty Council—the Faculty’s governing body—lacked female representation...
...Another point of focus during the meeting was diversity within the Faculty. Smith said that he had fielded some comments about how the ballot to elect five new members to the Faculty Council—the Faculty's governing body—lacked female representation...
...Smith said that the individuals on the ballot had to be both nominated and had to agree to the job. He said that "a good number of women" were present for the first step, even if their names did not wind up on the ballot...
...right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), which put up the poster that unsettled Nesim and has collected the obligatory 100,000 signatures required under Swiss law to put a constitutional amendment to a national vote. It seeks to overturn a 2003 Federal Court ruling that deemed ballot box votes on naturalization an infringement on the rights of would-be citizens. The decision was handed down after residents of the town of Emmen in central Switzerland repeatedly voted to reject citizenship applications from non-Western European nationals living in their midst...
Washington's proposed law would mirror Oregon's almost exactly. Proponents will have to collect 225,000 petition signatures by July 3 to get it on the ballot, and Gardner is confident they will do so. But if history is any indication, the initiative has little chance of passing in November. Voters have struck down dozens of similar "right to die" laws since the late 1980s, including in Washington State in 1992 when Gardner was governor...