Word: repeals
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...students issued a letter late Tuesday night responding to Pilbeam, saying the UC will vote on whether to formally repeal the party grants that they had temporarily reathorized two weeks ago. The UC also plans to vote tonight on whether to give the council’s executive board the go-ahead to consult a lawyer about questions of legality...
...country even as college tuition continues to rise, the U.S. Senate is considering ways to regulate university endowments. The move brought a rebuke from Harvard, which insisted that Congress should not dictate how university funds are spent. At a Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, senators considered measures including the repeal of university endowments’ tax-exempt status and mandating minimum yearly payouts to help lower tuition costs. The discussion at last week’s hearing focused on the spectacular growth of university endowments, which collectively increased by 17.7 percent to dollars in fiscal year 2006, according to testimony...
...change the Rockefeller laws. The momentum behind that reform, however, has now stagnated as prosecutors and legislators fear that changes in the law are being used as loopholes to free drug lords. With no light at the end of the tunnel, she and other activists fighting for a repeal feel the laws may never change and many of the state's imprisoned - her son included - continue to languish in jail. "The movement is definitely stalled, and we're trying to gain some momentum again, but it's very hard," said O'Donoghue. "I never would have dreamed in the beginning...
Over the last decade, activists, ex-convicts, families, politicians and even celebrities have become increasingly vocal about the laws. Reforms to the sentencing structure were enacted with the 2004 Drug Law Reform Act, which allows for reduced retroactive sentencing, and at first seemed to bring the laws closer to repeal. But they have only applied to about 1,000 people and only 350 have been released, says Anthony Papa, an official with the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group committed to changing the nation's drug laws. The reforms, he says, were not enough because the change applies...
Instead of new legislation, Gov. Spitzer's seven-member commission will conduct reviews of the state's toughest sentencing practices, under which the Rockefeller laws fall. But it is unlikely to bring about a full repeal of the laws, leaving O'Donoghue to wonder if a change will ever come. "These things keep carrying over and you just wonder when it's all going to be done," O'Donoghue asked. "When we get the final report? After the next legislative session...