Word: balloting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cambridge election laws, which make access to the November ballot easy (there is no primary), encourage people like Moore to use the race as a forum for their views. Moore, whose background is in computer programming and transportation economics, is stressing the issue of transportation planning in Cambridge...
Over the summer, the Grass Roots Movement (GRO), following the example of these cities, worked out a novel strategy for stopping the developers. GRO held public meetings resulting in a proposed amendment to the Cambridge City Zoning Ordinance. Signatures are now being collected to put this amendment on the ballot in November as an initiative petition. This petition, for the first time, will give the public the decisive voice over all future real estate development...
Emerson had some memorable words to speak in this regard. Harvard scholars, he wrote in 1861, have no voice in Harvard College: "State Street votes them down on every ballot." Everything is permitted in the university, he said, so long as it adorns the elegance and privilege of Boston. That which implies an ethical provocation is not given voice. Generosity of thought within this university, he said, has a bad name: "The youths come out decrepit citizens...
...support," the court continued, "counsel for the President would have us infer immunity from the President's political mandate or from his vulnerability to impeachment or from his discretionary powers. These are invitations to refashion the Constitution, and we reject them. Though the President is elected by nationwide ballot and is often said to represent all the people, he does not embody the nation's sovereignty. He is not above the law's commands. Sovereignty remains at all times with the people, and they do not forfeit through elections the right to have the law construed against...
Later in his column, Shane says that president Silber had a secret poll on R.O.T.C. when, in fact, it was a highly publicized poll but undertaken with the well known procedure called a secret ballot. A secret ballot does not make a secret poll. Finally in regard to this question of administration--faculty relations, Shane writes, "BU's faculty lacks the power and cohesiveness necessary to determine the fate of a BU president". Whatever this phrase means, it is not the case that President Silber and the Faculty at BU are in disagreement over the issues of military recruitment, R.O.T.C...