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<title><![CDATA[Uni: Studenten erhalten Geld zurück]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ibikus</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Der Verwaltungsaufwand ist nicht gering. Seit der Entscheidung des Oberverwaltungsgericht (OVG) im S]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Der Verwaltungsaufwand ist nicht gering. Seit der Entscheidung des Oberverwaltungsgericht (OVG) im Streitfall über die rechtmäßige Anhebung der Einschreibe- und Rückmeldegebühr um 10 Euro für das Wintersemester 2005/ 06 im März diesen Jahres muss die Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität die erhobene Rückmeldegebühr an die Studierenden zurückzahlen. <!--more--></p>
<p>Greifswald. Der durch den juristische Streitfall seit drei Jahren auf einem Sperrkonto lagernde Betrag beläuft sich auf knapp 590.000 Euro. „Wir haben das Urteil anerkannt“, sagt der Stellvertretende Kanzler und Leiter des Dezernates für Finanzen Lothar Schönebeck. Von einer Klage gegen die laut Richterspruch entschiedene Unmöglichkeit einer Revision des Urteils vor dem Bundesverwaltungsgericht wurde abgesehen. „Das hätte den Prozess unnötig in die Länge gezogen“, so Schönebeck. Denn das Land wäre derzeit vielmehr in der Pflicht, eine rechtliche Grundlage für eine Erhöhung der Einschreibe- und Rückmeldegebühr zu schaffen. Nur daran scheiterte die von der Universität nach ihren Satzungen ordnungsgemäß eingeführte Gebührenordnung im Verfahren.</p>
<p>Innerhalb von drei Jahren können sich Studierende ab Anfang Juli ihr zuviel eingezahltes Geld von der Universität zurückerstatten lassen. „Jeder hat einen Anspruch“, bestätigt der derzeit kommissarisch im Amt befindliche AStA-Vorsitzende Thomas Schattschneider. Allerdings nur auf Antrag. Nähere Informationen stehen Anfang Juli auf der Homepage der Greifswalder Alma Mater. Zudem erhalten alle eingeschriebenen Studierende eine Mitteilung über den Mailverteiler der Universität. „Der Anspruch muss geltend machen werden“, weist Bernd Ebert, Leiter der Studentensekretariates, hin. Denn die jeweils ausstehende Summe wird erst nach Prüfung in Form eines Verrechnungsschecks an die Betroffenen per Post versandt oder auf dessen Konto überwiesen.</p>
<p>„Es gibt einige, die nicht mehr vor Ort sind“, räumt Thomas Schattschneider ein. Im Falle eines schriftlichen Verzichts auf die Erstattung der Gebühr beraten der Allgemeine Studierendenausschuss (AStA) und die Universitätsleitung am Ende über das nicht abgerufene Geld zur Verbesserung der Greifswalder Studienbedingungen. Beispielsweise für PC-Pools oder Lizenzen für Fachzeitschriften. Dennoch ist Thomas Schattschneider der Auffassung: „Jeder hat zuerst Recht auf sein Geld.“</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Why Blue States Lose]]></title>
<link>http://shoutybear.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-real-reason-why-blue-states-lose/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jane Roh</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It ain&#8217;t just these guys. Contrary to popular opinion, I am not all about the H8. But I really]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="display:block;width:425px;margin:0 auto;"><embed src='http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.495224' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' AllowScriptAccess='always' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' wmode='transparent' flashvars='' /> <span style="float:left;"><a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=164493"></a></span><span style="font-size:10px;float:right;"><a href="http://vodpod.com/wordpress"></a></span></span>It ain&#8217;t just <a target="_blank" href="http://gawker.com/news/blue-states-lose/heres-some-junkie-rubbing-a-popsicle-all-over-her-face-while-purple-drool-drips-down-onto-her-shirt-328583.php">these guys</a>. Contrary to popular opinion, I am not all about the H8. But I really do have to draw the line at Eric Alterman, the self-appointed spokesmessiah of the progressive left.</p>
<p>Check out his appearance on Monday&#8217;s The Colbert Report. Alterman&#8217;s never been accused of having a healthy sense of humor (or perspective, for that matter). Maybe he is just playing into type here, who knows. Somehow, my instincts say <em>nyet</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;To be a liberal, Stephen, it just means you believe in the truth,&#8221; he says, schooling his host. &#8220;You don&#8217;t take orders from God, you don&#8217;t take orders from the Fatherland.&#8221;</p>
<p>Because all conservatives do, right? That is just about the most assinine thing I have ever heard from this guy, and that&#8217;s saying a ton.<!--more--></p>
<p>I get why Democrats are so super-psyched this election year, the protracted nomination battle notwithstanding. Conservatism as a brand is horribly damaged, and many of us who pay attention to this stuff expect the Dems to expand their majorities in both chambers <em>and</em> take back the White House. The Bush years are seen as a disaster both here and abroad, and Democrats are eager for their shot at major damage control come January.</p>
<p>Fine. It&#8217;s your turn, have at it.</p>
<p>But the party would be wise not to forget why it was out of power for so long and is now best known as the party that&#8217;s awesome at losing stuff. The big lesson of the conservative almost-revolution and the rise of FOX News, which dominates in ratings <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/q1_2008_ratings_cable_ranker_81349.asp">even now</a>, is that Americans don&#8217;t like being condescended to.</p>
<p>Mind-blowing, right? I find Alterman&#8217;s comment intellectually offensive. I&#8217;m guessing that Americans who actually believe in God find it offensive on even more levels.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the other lesson: Religious Americans outnumber non-religious Americans. By <a target="_blank" href="http://religions.pewforum.org/affiliations">a lot</a>. You may not want them running the government according to the precepts of their faith, but they deserve representation as much as the rest of us. Democracy is fun that way.</p>
<p>Colbert, a practicing Catholic, had a pretty brilliant retort: &#8220;But God is truth. Jesus said, &#8216;I am the way, the truth and the light.&#8217; What part of that don&#8217;t you understand?&#8221;</p>
<p>What Alterman doesn&#8217;t seem to understand is that many Americans take the above as gospel, but don&#8217;t necessarily conflate their faith with their politics. He&#8217;s trying to inform political views, and that&#8217;s fine. But he&#8217;s mistaken if he thinks that should be done by attacking religious beliefs.</p>
<p>Polls show most Americans want their political leaders to believe in God, but it&#8217;s not because they necessarily want Jesus to be the POTUS&#8217;s co-pilot.  A little more than 60 percent of respondents to a <a target="_blank" href="http://pewforum.org/surveys/campaign08/">2007 Pew survey</a> said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who did not believe in God, yet a 43-percent plurality also said religious conservatives had too much control over the GOP and 63 percent said churches should not endorse candidates.</p>
<p>Americans, including those who practice little or not at all, view religious belief as a signifier for a certain moral code. This is particularly important for untested and unknown candidates. Affiliation with one of America&#8217;s major faiths is like a shortcut to getting to know a candidate &#8212; voters can assume that s/he believes lying and cheating are wrong, will prioritize the powerless over the powerful, etc., etc.</p>
<p>Thanks to the Bush years, some secular liberals are under the impression that the religious right is now a political force to contend with. President Bush was the first president to give evangelicals a seat at the table, but he never really let them run anything that mattered. Moreover, John McCain&#8217;s amazing rise to the top of the ticket shows that evangelicals aren&#8217;t the heavyweights in the GOP that everyone thought. They are loud and they have money. But they don&#8217;t have much in the way of real power.</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s another reason why Alterman&#8217;s comment is so patently offensive. Democrats will have tremendous opportunities over the coming years, particularly if they finally win a veto-proof majority in the Senate. But that doesn&#8217;t make the millions of Americans who go to church, watch FOX News and have an American flag hanging in front of their house go away. Count on conservatives to lie in wait for liberal Democrats to alienate those blocs of voters (again) and piss their November election victories away.</p>
<p>My former colleague Ben Fritz got his hands on <a target="_blank" href="http://benfritz.blogspot.com/2007/10/eric-altermans-new-line-of-greeting.html">Eric Alterman&#8217;s new line of greeting cards</a> last fall. It&#8217;s pretty sweet.</p>
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