Word: dead
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Beginning today, the Undergraduate Council will set up posterboard "Christmas cards" for the signatures in all College dining halls alongside its Grateful Dead referendum materials. Representatives in some Houses began collecting signatures last night...
...believe your editorial "The Grateful Dead Referendum: Refuse to Vote" blurs the basic reasoning behind the Undergraduate Council's decision to hold the referendum...
Although the council has found a sponsor to pick up the Dead's $100,000 tab, logistical considerations such as crowd control and use of the Harvard Stadium--the proposed site of the concert may lead Epps to rule against the concert...
INFUSED with democratic fervor, the Undergraduate Council last week decided it was not fit to decide whether it should sponsor a spring concert by the Grateful Dead, and that the matter should be be taken directly to the people. So today, tomorrow and Wednesday, all students can vote on the question in their Houses--the first referendum on a council-related issue since the formation of the organization itself. They should, on principle, refuse to vote on the question...
...according to their wishes--such as the Nuclear Free Cambridge and Rent Control questions on the municipal ballot this fall. Hardly the case with the vote. If the council seriously wanted to gauge the will of the populace, they should have held a campus-wide balloting before the "Dead" plans firmed up, asking what group students would prefer. But the question as it stands, "Resolved, that the Council shall sponsor a concert in Harvard Stadium with the Grateful Dead" blurs several issues and hence botches any sort of democratic result. If the referendum fails, what does that mean? That students...