Word: gabay
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...word "accountability" has evaporated from the vocabulary of two Undergraduate Council executives. The words "responsibility," "representation," and "fairness" have also disappeared. With their rejection of sophomore Anjalee C. Davis's petition for a five-question referendum, Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 and Vice-President Joshua D. Liston '95 effectively moved to sever the link between student opinion and student government...
Davis's petition, signed by well over 1,000 students, posed five questions related to the U.C.'s recently enacted increase of their fee on the term-bill. Gabay, in an action that the Council's executive board will debate, rejected four of the questions because of the wording of the U.C.'s Constitution: "Any question may be committed to a referendum...by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates...
Secretary Brandon C. Gregoire '95, who isserving as the council's acting parliamentarian inthe absence of David A. Smith '94, told TheCrimson after the meeting that Davis was indeedout of order in presenting Gabay with thepetition...
...dealt with [Davis] in the past, andunfortunately, you have to be forceful with her,"said Gregoire, explaining Gabay's behavior...
Liston also said that Davis should haveconsulted Gabay in putting together herreferendum...