Word: gabay
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...leadership of the Undergraduate Council has conjured, out of thin air, an ex post facto restriction on the right of referendum. They have applied this imaginary limitation retroactively, to the petition that was signed by over 1,100 students. Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 asserted in his recent Crimson guest commentary, "Clarifying the U.C.'s Record" (April 18, 1994), that "the Petition did not give students the right to choose which questions they wished to see submitted to a referendum (as required by our constitution)." This alleged requirement of the Constitution is a complete fiction, newly-minted by Gabay...
...assert that "under the council's standards, a proper referendum petition should not be packed," a word to which he imputes vaguely sinister undertones, but one which I must confess I still do not understand. Once again, the "council's standards" are a week-old creation of Carey W. Gabay, in response to the petition...
Most egregiously, Gabay has now begun to perpetrate a purposeful falsehood about the petition, calling it, at this week's Harvard Political Union debate on the subject, an "omnibus bill." As a senior government major, Gabay must be aware that an omnibus bill allows just one vote, "yes" or "no," on an entire package of legislation. And Gabay knows that our referendum allows a separate vote on each of the issues. This is the same pattern of fabrication that is apparent in his statements about our student government constitution...
...constitution is elegant in its simplicity: "Any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." Upon receiving the petition, however, Gabay decided that this simple clause actually implies all manner of complex restrictions on our right of referendum. But 1,100 students signed the petition in good faith. Gabay's objection implies that more than 440 signatories would, if we called them, say, "No, I did not know there were five questions on the referendum, and I don't think students should be able...
...cooperation with Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, our response has been to collect 685 more signatures, this time verifying that each and every signatory received a copy of the entire referendum when they signed. Gabay and company will no doubt raise a whole new set of frivolous and dilatory objections. But what has become clear is that this referendum no longer involves the Undergraduate Council...