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...form of a utility bill, producing one can be a tall order for students, who tend to live in dorms and whose utility costs are folded into board fees. The president of Oberlin has issued utility bills for zero payment to all students to allow them to fulfill local residency requirements, and he is urging other schools to do the same. But elsewhere, many students are stuck...
...Because local officials have wide latitude in interpreting election laws that vary from state to state, misunderstandings - or misinformation - could have an even greater impact this year than in 2004, given the anticipated bulge in student turnout. Most of the trouble comes from nailing down where college students should be counted as residents if they attend school in one state but go home to another during the holidays. The Supreme Court's position is clear: a 1979 ruling found that all students have the right to vote where they attend college. But local officials often make students travel a rocky...
...Legal misunderstandings are one thing, but some registrars seem to make political decisions about whether students get to vote locally. In Virginia, for example, where the law stipulates that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's no accident that registrars' rulings are often strictest in small towns, where students could potentially swing a local election. In 2004, after a voter drive registered 2,000 William and Mary students in Williamsburg - home to fewer than 12,000 residents - the local registrar announced that students no longer had domicile...
...Somewhere You Look Exotic. Obviously your looks won't change drastically on the road, but depending on where you go, the same face that gets ignored in your local bar can be considered exotica. "Foreigners are very appealing, especially in places with a more homogenous population - the white guy with the blonde hair gets noticed in Korea and even if you're awkward, you're going to get approached," says John Pick*, a New York City-based travel writer. It eliminates the hard part of getting lucky, he says...
...secretly taped audio of two men talking about how they could grease the wheels for a Norwegian company to get oil and gas concessions in country. Garcia and his Cabinet chief, Jorge del Castillo, hastily called a press conference as soon as the audio was played on a local news show, trying to put distance between themselves and the men on the tape, who are also members of ruling APRA party...