Word: abstentionism
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Three weeks of debate and investigation by the Student Council on the projected Varsity Club ended with that body splitting three ways on the issue last night. In a straw vote earlier during the meeting, the Council had voted eight to five (one abstention) against building a new club.
In tense silence the voting began. On the first ballot Yugoslavia got 37 votes, only two less than the necessary two-thirds majority. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj and his colleagues, who sat pale and worried right behind the Russian delegation, began to relax a little. On the...
William D. Mulholland '50 set up standards for approval of student groups aspiring to official status in a motion passed by the Council 13 to 0. There was one abstention. Mulholland's criteria are that the applicant group must be a "bons fide organization of undergraduates," that the group should...
Oppenheim refused to attend the meeting that unanimously--with one abstention--impeached him; but in a letter to the club he attacked the "asinine and public" manner in which the proceedings were conducted, and said that he would always "remain a democrat with a small 'd'."
The bonds of orthodox Hinduism are stronger in Madras than anywhere else in India. Abstention from liquor, tobacco and meat are cardinal points in the orthodox Hindu code. Prohibition is spreading from Madras to other parts of Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been...