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4 Tactics Anti-Democratic Forces Are Using to Suppress the Student Vote

Union of Concerned Scientists

Below, we highlight four common tactics being used to suppress campus voting across the country. In many states , a campus student ID is a valid form of voter identification. Prominent conservative legal strategists, however, have advised against campus polling places as part of a concerted effort to limit campus voting.

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How Florida Legislation Will Limit the Student Vote

Union of Concerned Scientists

These tactics include regulations on actions directly connected to voting and attempts to limit freedom of speech and academic life on public campuses, both of which can disengage students from the political process. Now these on-campus polling sites could be thwarted by a parking regulation for polls.

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5 Pennsylvania Colleges, Join 3 From North Carolina In Joint Solar Energy Power Purchase Agreement From Facility In Kentucky

PA Environment Daily

Dickinson will be paying for an amount of energy equal to approximately 75% percent of the electricity used by its campus, with the remainder being satisfied by the college’s 3 MW Solar Field. The colleges in North Carolina are Davidson College, Elon University and Wake Forest University.

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Climate Action for Earth Day

Legal Planet

Earth Day is a perfect day to register to vote and to make sure people in your life are registered—and fully aware of what’s at stake in Election 2024. I’ve been committing to taking the bus as much as I can, including across town to campus. It is a story about a life dedicated to the earth and how hard it is to do that.

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Students in Sustainability are Making Progress at CSU

HumanNature

Written by Gabriele Hibbitts Waste aversion is a feat that sometimes feels unattainable, especially on a college campus. Plastic ware and compostable containers, items that could be repurposed, fill the trash cans in buildings across campus. Waste, an unavoidable part of life, is everywhere.

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New-to-science toad species discovered on university campus in Peru

New Scientist

For the second time in his life, researcher Rommel Rojas Zamora has identified a new species of toad on the campus of the university where he is working

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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

For example, the Department of Conservation Biology and Ecology is in the School of Life Sciences. However, a description of the School stresses its leadership role on campus: “If climate is part of the curricula and research programs of so many parts of Columbia, you might ask “Why do we need a climate school?”

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