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Under the terms of the council constitution, "[a]ny question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." More than 1,100 signatures were submitted to the council, indicating that "[w]e, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum." The council does have a legitimate interest in assuring that the signatures submitted on such a petition are valid...
Although certainly a convenient interpretation for Gabay and his fellow executives who wish to maintain the status quo uncontested, such an "interpretation" denies a simple fact. Every student who signed Davis's petition signed a petition which called for five questions: "We, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum...
...five-question petition with more than 1,100 signatures was presented to the council last Sunday by former member Anjalee C. Davis '96, who is taking the semester off from school. The petition specified that the signatories commit all five questions to a binding student referendum...
Davis' petition specified that all thosesigning "commit[ted] the attached [five] questionsto a Referendum." The questions were on a sheet ofpaper headed by the words "Binding Referendum" inbold letters...
...sure what "BROIL" is for. Maybe for drying out wet shoes. Certainly not for food preparation. If you do commit this culinary faux pas, however, use a butter knife to whittle away the black, carbonized surfaces of burned food. Brush off the black dust, and apply mustard liberally to disguise the ashy taste...