Word: gsa
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...GSA's Constitution leaves little doubt of the Council's intended activities. It's two most promnient "purposes" are "To provide liaison between the administration and the graduate students and to maintain a spirit of friendly cooperation among the graduate schools...
...motion was amended to allow only dues-paying GSA members the right to vote. (Of approximately 4500 graduate students, only 1500 pay GSA dues.) The Council also retained the opinion poll, which will be offered to all graduate students. Finally, the Theeman forces were unable to moderate the wording of the referendum, which called for "immediate withdrawal." Council member Roger Rifer, a close associate of Parker's, had originally proposed "unilateral withdrawal" for the referendum, and the activist group was forced to compromise on the severe "immediate withdrawal" wording...
...clear to me," says Feintuch, "that Parker and his group fovored 'unilateral withdrawal' to kill the referendum. They limited the referendum to GSA members because they know graduate students as a whole would not support the referendum," he charges. "Now only the most conservative element among the graduate students, those who live in the campus dorms and pay $2.50 a year to attend the sherry parties, can vote to commit the Council...
Feintuch and Miss Theeman assert that the poll is a sop to the other graduate students. "The leadership of the GSA has provided 7-10 answers for each question so that it's impossible to get a majority on any one question," Miss Theeman says...
White notes that the GSA referendum, as introduced, contained the phrase "The GSA, speaking for its members..." "It would be point to allow non-GSA persons to influence this motion," he says. Moreover, he asserts that the poll "has sufficient latitude that a person can come much closer to expressing his true feelings...