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...council's executive board decided Wednesday night to strike four issues from the referendum and to include only a vote on the council's recent $10 term bill fee hike...
...last Sunday, when Davis presented the petition to gavel-wielding Council President Carey W. Gabay '94, Davis was quickly ruled out of order. Gabay decreed that only one of the five questions would be brought before the students and, furthermore, that one question would be the recent term-bill fee hike. Gabay also remarked that he was being "nice enough" to even allow the referendum on that one issue...
Other than Gabay's dismissal of Davis's petition, the most flagrant example is the recent term-bill fee hike itself. Council members voted overwhelmingly to raise students' fees by 50 percent, while a Crimson poll revealed that most students (56.2 percent) disapproved of the fee hike (with 25.2 percent uncertain...
Council members chose to include just theterm-bill fee hike on the referendum because thatissue has been "the most salient, the one that'sbeen in The Crimson every day," Gabay said. "Theother issues are secondary...
Gabay's final rationale was that he spoke to 10 Quincy House residents who all said that they only signed Davis's petition to reverse the term-bill fee hike. First of all, 10 students is not a very large sample for a population of over 6,600. Secondly, Gabay did not consider equally valid input that all the other Council members from other Houses and the Yard could offer. It is still more distressing that Gabay did not offer any similar House-based justification for his support of the term-bill increase when it was first passed...