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...crime rather than the type. As it stands, a misdemeanor drug offense could make a student ineligible for aid, while a student convicted of felony assault would still technically qualify. The denial of educational opportunity carries such serious ramifications for a person’s future that the threshold for ineligibility should be both high—a felony conviction, for example—and consistent. (A higher threshhold would, of course, continue to allow colleges to enforce their own codes of conduct as they see fit.) On the whole, the AEP is indicative of a larger problem with...
...turn of the top end-and those who one day aspire to be like them. At the start of the decade, the 47 cent tax rate kicked in at an annual income over $A50,000; from this July, the rate will be 45 cents and the income threshold will be above $A150,000 (with only 1 in 50 taxpayers to be in the top bracket). The overall tax mechanics are such that 80% of workers will pay no more than a top marginal rate of 30 cents for every dollar earned...
...status-quo contingency. Although outnumbered, the latter group pinned their hopes on amending Article 7 of the UC Constitution, which mainly deals with the passing of bylaws changes. Under this new bill, two-thirds of the Council would be required to pass any bylaw amendment rather than the current threshold of a simple majority. Oddly enough, UC Representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 found himself in both camps—sponsoring both 62.35 and the amendment to subject bylaw changes to two-thirds votes. This apparent contradiction made sense to Greenfield, however, because he believed that 62.35 would...
...passed.Yet the constitution—which takes precedence over the bylaws—can only be amended if two-thirds of all UC members cast ballots, And since there are 51 members of the council, Greenfield’s legislation “failed to achieve the necessary threshold for passage,” according to Haddock’s e-mail.Since Greenfield’s amendment isn’t binding, it appears that, under the UC constitution, the bylaws can still be changed by simple majority vote. And the reform of the nondiscrimination provision would have passed that threshold.When...
...They said they had not, in fact, changed the threshold and that another vote in the evening to keep the threshold for changing bylaws at a simple majority was evidence that the council did not mean to change the rules...