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...most disturbing change is their reversal of the wording. On our referendum, a "yes" vote overturns the council vote to increase the fee. On theirs, a "yes" vote upholds the fee. This would seem calculated to cause confusion. Worse, it makes a mockery of the binding nature of the petition. The term "binding" means the council cannot tamper with the resolution after the vote. But how can a resolution be "binding" if they can change it before the vote? The term becomes illusory...
This referendum is not Question One from the petition. It does not specifically overturn the council's vote for a fee increase, and does not adhere to the binding language of the petition. Thus, our own Question One will have to be administered along with the other four questions, when we finally get to vote...
Anjalee C Davis '96, a former Undergraduate Council member who is taking this semester off, is the organizer of the petition drive to bring the proposed termbill fee hike and other issues to a campus-wide referendum...
Students will go to the polls today and begin deciding whether to uphold the Undergraduate Council's $10 fee hike...
According to the council office, the question on today's referendum will be "Do you support the Undergraduate Council's proposal for increase the term bill fee form...