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Last Sunday, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution seeking the removal of popularly elected vice president John A. Burton '01 (News, Feb. 7). The council's decision to pass this resolution departs from the logical dictates of justice and invites closer scrutiny...
Pursuant to a 1995 constitutional amendment, Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and Burton were elected president and vice president of the council, respectively, by the undergraduate student body. Prior to the amendment, the president and vice president were elected internally by the council...
...sole officer vested with the authority to interpret the constitution, Driskell ruled last Sunday that the resolution to remove Burton from office through a vote by the council alone was unconstitutional. At the behest of the resolution's proponents--which included three defeated presidential candidates--and with an amazing disregard for the explicit reading of the 1997 constitutional amendment, the council overruled Driskell...
...appears that those candidates who lost in the popular election cannot accept the student body's rejection of their candidacy. Instead, they have chosen to reverse the student decision to elect Burton. Now these same people want to deny the student body of its right to a recall vote and a choice to retain Burton as vice president...
Survey on Burton Not Statistically Significant...