Word: hiked
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Meanwhile, Liston released a statement in which he reversed himself on several controversial positions he took last spring. Liston said a referendum conducted last spring proved that students do not support the council's $10 term-bill fee hike or elimination of the easy waiver of the council...
Crimson polls conducted last spring made clear that an overwhelming majority of students--realizing that the council should not be given more money when it does so little with what it has--opposed the fee increase. But, alas, this did not deter the council from passing the tax hike...
...what members describe as a dramatic volte-face, presidential candidate and current Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95 announced yesterday that he will push rescind last spring's $10 term-bill hike if he re-elected to the council...
...Liston about-face on the fee hike is especially curious because the presidential candidate was one of its most outspoken supporters last spring...
Liston emphasized in his statement that 60 percent of the student body opposed the fee hike in last year's referendum. But last My, Liston was pointing to a different referendum figure--the 22 percent student turnout, which, he said, proved that students were deferring to the council's decision...