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change of address requirements will prevent many college students from voting

The Rev. Charles McKenzie, Florida
 coordinator of  the Rainbow Push Coalition,
 speaks at a state Democratic Party rally
Friday outside the Edgecomb Courthouse.

Florida University Students Tackle Voting Rights and Voting Access Issues   WCTV news Tallahassee, FL -- January 25, 2012 --
The Florida Initiative for Electoral Reform (FLIER) applauds the Florida Student Association (FSA) for tackling voting rights and voting access issues. FSA, which represents Florida's 330,000 public university students, formally adopted a position calling for the repeal of HB 1355 while proposing the expansion of early voting, including allowing the use of university campuses, and implementation of same-day voter registration.
Read the rest of the WCTV report.

Democratic senators hold Tampa hearing on state's voting law

By MIKE SALINERO | The Tampa Tribune 
Published: January 28, 2012

Updated: January 28, 2012 - 12:00 AM

Two Democratic U.S. senators on Friday accused Florida's Republican-led Legislature of plotting to deny citizens their most basic and inalienable right: the right to vote. . . .
The law also prohibits a voter from changing his or her address at the precinct or at an early voting site as they could previously. A voter who lives at an address not registered with the supervisor's office must cast a provisional ballot. Witnesses testified that less than 50 percent of provisional ballots cast in Florida's 2008 general election were counted.
The change of address requirements will prevent many college students from voting, said Sarah Pemberton, president of the Florida College Student Government Association. More than 51 percent of university students transferred from a college or a community college, Pemberton said, requiring many of them to move. Because they often balance college and jobs, students are likely to forget to register their new address. . . .  Read the full report from Tampa Bay Online.

UF College Republicans favor Mitt Romney

by: Joy King, writer to the the independent florida alligator, January 30, 2012
Mit Romney is the desired UF College Republicans favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.
Florida's choice for the 2012 Republican presidential candidate will be determined on Tuesday.

A poll taken by members of the UF College Republicans showed Mitt Romney received the most support with 41 percent of votes. He is followed by Ron Paul, who received 26 percent of the vote.
Although UF College Republicans do not endorse any specific candidate, Matt Pesek, second vice chair for the organization, believes Romney and Paul relate best to student voters. Read the full report from The Alligator

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Study Links Winning Football and Declining Grades

By Mary Pilon, New York Times
Published: December 21, 2011

read the full study at
 having-a-winning-football-team-hurts-male-students-grades

When a college football team is successful, students put down their books and pick up some beers.

At least, that is the case made by three University of Oregon economists whose study was released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
In examining the grade-point averages of the Oregon student body and the performance of the Ducks’ football team, the researchers found a relationship between declining grades and success on the field.

“Our results support the concern that big-time sports are a threat to American higher education,” the paper’s authors — Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen R. Waddell — wrote. They said their work was among the first to take a look at the “nonmonetary costs” of college sports.
Male students were more likely than female students to increase their alcohol consumption and celebrating and decrease studying when a team fared well, resulting in lower grade-point averages, according to the study.
Women also showed a decline in academic performance, though smaller than their male counterparts. For both sexes, the slack in studying and pop in partying was present only in fall quarters, aligning with the football season. . . .
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