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...Massachusetts Joint Committee on Higher Education is set to hear testimony from students, faculty, and student advocates tomorrow on a bill that aims to reduce textbook prices across the state. The legislation, House Bill 1200—known as the Affordable Textbooks Bill??would require publishers selling textbooks to universities to disclose wholesale prices, a list of all of their products, and an estimated length of time that they expect to keep the product on the market. In addition, the bill would require bundled books to be made available individually. “It’s good...
...ends up being something else entirely.The film revolves around a psychotic stuntman (Kurt “Snake Plissken” Russell, in a piece of such inspired casting it rivals John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction” and David Carradine in “Kill Bill??) whose “death-proof” car serves as the primary weapon on his murderous rampage. Until, that is, he gets a taste of his own medicine from a pack of girls (Tracie Thomas, Rosario Dawson, and real-life stunt queen Zoë Bell) with a sweet...
...student’s educational development. In this case however, the ban on sexual discourse certainly fails to meet that standard; rather, the restriction is plainly motivated by Utah’s conservative standards of “socially appropriate behavior,” a standard that the bill??s co-sponsor, State Senator D. Chris Buttars, seeks to enforce in schools. The law will also put principals in the precarious position of constantly making delicate value judgments. Not surprisingly, the State Board of Education opposed the law for this very reason. Ultimately, we recognize the community?...
...bill??s opponents, however, focused on the rarity of the virus and maintained that the costs would outweigh the benefits. Ewalt claimed that only 0.00001 percent of American women would contract the virus. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...funding the whole project, the UC would simply match any House funding put toward newspapers. The alteration also would have allowed houses a certain freedom in choosing which newspaper was placed in dining halls. Neither aspect of the amendment proved to be enough to allay the concerns of the bill??s doubters. “We’re already on a very tight budget,” Jon T. Staff V ’10, a vice chair of the UC’s Financial Committee (FiCom), said, adding that the money earmarked for newspapers...