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...corruption charges, sentenced to 10 years in prison, and fined R$ 12 million ($5 million). Mr. Dantas’ fate remains unclear as he may still file multiple appeals that could take years to be evaluated. Nevertheless, his conviction reflects an accomplishment of the Lula administration in Brazil: the freedom of the Polícia Federal, responsible for gathering the evidence in the case. The PF has been allowed to aggressively pursue corruption investigations since 2003 and numerous prosecutions show that Brazil’s institutional modernization process remains strong, despite the chaos in the global economy...
...Some may argue that sending an email or a handwritten letter to the Student Receivables Office is not an extremely difficult task. These people would miss the point. The UC shouldn’t look on in silence while the administration limits their constituency’s freedom with regard to the fee’s payment. Such quiet complicity makes the Council appear desperate for funding, and happy to wrest money from students who otherwise wouldn’t want to pay. The UC constitution claims that it represents the entire undergraduate student body, not just students who fund...
...think even though material conditions have improved a lot here, and we’re grateful, having an independent organization that’s able to bargain about people’s conditions is really important to diversity and academic freedom,” Paulson said. She said students should be wary of the university pushing teaching duties on graduate students or adjunct professors without providing job security...
...Waldau advocates an incremental approach. For over a decade, he’s served as the Vice-President of the Great Apes Project, a global coalition pushing for basic legal rights for chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. The campaign hopes to establish legal rights to life, liberty, and freedom from torture for our closest evolutionary cousins; many hope these rights could then be extended to other animals...
...Concentrators would be required to take just one course in each category, giving students greater freedom to take more electives and thus design their own courses of study...