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...Florida is the only state that levies fines for submitting registration applications late or not at all, says Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, who also represents the plaintiffs. And the LWV of Florida claims the impact of the fines could be devastating. "The League of Women Voters' entire annual budget of $80,000 would be decimated if only sixteen voter registration applications collected by its volunteers were lost in a flood, or if its volunteers took 11 days to submit the few hundred applications they often collect during...
...Bill Posey, a Rockledge Republican, argues that hurricanes or other disasters are not the issue; by imposing the fine for failing to submit a voter's application, he maintains, the law discourages people or groups from destroying the registration forms of people with differing political views. (Weiser points out that Florida already had a law on the books to address that problem.) And if a hurricane hits, any fine due to delay or destruction can be appealed, he says. "If a hurricane blew a building away, I can't imagine they're going to get somebody for that," Posey says...
Daly Genik, a California-based architectural firm, will transform the Citizens Bank offices in Allston into an interim art facility while the University Art Museums undergo renovations, Harvard announced yesterday. No designs were submitted during the competition process for the contract. But Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, said he expected the firm to submit plans for the Soldiers Field Road property within the next three to four months. Construction is tentatively scheduled for 2007, and the center is expected to open to the public in late 2008. University officials said...
Well over a dozen departments plan to submit secondary field proposals to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) for approval by next fall.At least seven departments will consider allowing members of the class of 2007 to declare a secondary field retroactively. Departments have the final say in determining whether next year’s seniors will be able to declare a secondary field in the spring, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71. The full Faculty approved the Curricular Review legislation to implement secondary fields a month ago.Secondary fields will not appear on diplomas...
...press, how can professors and teaching fellows at Harvard expect to police plagiarism in coursework?An Oakland, Calif.-based software company says it has a solution.The company’s anti-plagiarism system, TurnItIn, scans student papers for similarities with previous work.At universities that subscribe to TurnItIn, professors can submit student papers to the company’s website—and those papers remain in the TurnItIn database forever.TurnItIn then compares the submissions to all the other papers in its database. Within seconds, it spits back a detailed report on any matches.Georgetown University, the University of California-Los Angeles...