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...strong admonition to the Undergraduate Council, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III indicated yesterday that the College will likely administer a referendum on whatever questions raised by a recent petition that the council fails to put on its own ballot...
With these questions, we applaud the likely intervention of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Yesterday, Epps expressed his support for the undivided referendum: "If the U.C. fails to present these issues on their referendum ballot, I will convene a meeting of the Committee on College Life to discuss this failure next week....The results of that meeting would probably be that the College itself would put forth these issues for a student vote, which would then be binding for the Undergraduate council." Epps should immediately instruct the council to follow it is own rules, bringing all five questions...
...Undergraduate Council executive board voted last night to strike four of five issues that would have appeared on next week's referendum, keeping only a question about the $10 term bill hike on the ballot...
Gabay judged this passage to mean that 663 (10 percent of the population) signatures were needed for each question to appear on a ballot. But why should the same person sign five different pieces of paper? Does Gabay believe that students can't read all of the words at the top of a petition, only one-fifth of them? It seems reasonable to assume that people would not sign the petition if they disagreed with its demands...
Assuming the investigation produces no shocking revelations that somehow implicate the P.R.I. in Colosio's death, Zedillo is a strong front runner for the August ballot. His two main rivals have yet to gather steam and his party, though not the monolith it used to be, is still dominant. And, of course, he wears the glowing mantle of the martyred Colosio...