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...Undergraduate Council executive board voted last night to strike four of five issues that would have appeared on next week's referendum, keeping only a question about the $10 term bill hike on the ballot...
Council members chose to include just theterm-bill fee hike on the referendum because thatissue has been "the most salient, the one that'sbeen in The Crimson every day," Gabay said. "Theother issues are secondary...
Gabay's final rationale was that he spoke to 10 Quincy House residents who all said that they only signed Davis's petition to reverse the term-bill fee hike. First of all, 10 students is not a very large sample for a population of over 6,600. Secondly, Gabay did not consider equally valid input that all the other Council members from other Houses and the Yard could offer. It is still more distressing that Gabay did not offer any similar House-based justification for his support of the term-bill increase when it was first passed...
...meantime, the council will beginpublicizing its view of the term-bill hike inpreparation for the referendum. While the petitioncalled for elections on April 19-21, members saidthe date will be decided this week by theexecutive board...
Members of the Undergraduate Council, who have been working on this project for months, nonetheless vow to fight no. Could this be an attempt at political resurrection on the heels of student discontent with the council's latest fee hike proposal? Most likely...