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...Carey W. Gabay '94 is president of the Undergraduate Council...
...when Undergraduate Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 squares off against former council member Anjalee C. Davis '96 in tonight's debate on the council's recent $10 term-bill hike, sparks are sure...
...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...
...Further, Gabay argues in the Crimson article (April 14,1994) that many students signed the petition only to endorse a referendum on the first question, on reversing the council's recent decision to raise term-bill fees by $10. But if the executive board of the council seriously held that opinion, it should have recommended that the council invalidate the entire petition, or that it contact all of the students who signed the petition to confirm the validity of their signatures...
...course of action which the council does not have the constitutional power to pursue. Based solely on anecdotal evidence, it chose to second-guess the intentions of the more than 1,100 students who signed the petition and pick and choose which items to put to a vote. Gabay has asserted that the petition was procedurally incorrect because it did not give students a choice. But neither does the council constitution give it the power of choice over which of the questions can be put to a referendum...