Word: gabay
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...pushed aside by an arrogant elite. Is Dartboard's intrepid correspondent sending back a frenzied dispatch from Rwanda? No, the crisis situation is centered in Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard, where the Undergraduate Council has unilaterally disqualified four out of five ballot questions .His Eminence, President and Grand Poobah Carey Gabay '94, Master of Peons and Terror of 12 Houses, through the unbounded benevolence of his magnanimous heart, has allowed a single question to remain, while chastising dangerous hooligan and adventurist counter-revolutionary Anjalee C. Davis '94 for her pernicious bourgeois-democratic notions. Gabay's electoral monkey business, under the guise...
...over campus, the very students the Undergraduate Council is supposed to represent (though Gabay, it seems, has taken his mandate as "to rule") are scratching their heads: does the council try to antagonize us or is its august leadership so rapt with the idea of its own Parliamentary Sovereignty that it couldn't care less about student opinion? After all, when the council's only sins were bumbling and incompetence, most students couldn't have cared less about them. But the insolent and smug dismissal of a petition with strong popular support is enough to halt the council's slide...
...council President Carey W. Gabay '94 has argued that the petition was conducted in a "procedurally incorrect" manner because students did not have the opportunity to endorse each question individually. While it may be true that some students therefore felt unable to sign the petition, this failing does not invalidate the 1,100 signatures that did endorse all five questions. The provisions of the council constitution have been fulfilled; Gabay's argument only suggest that more students would have signed the petition if it had been organized differently...
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...
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...