Word: liston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95 argued thatonly the term-bill hike should be on thereferendum because all the other questions onDavis' petition would require a change in thestudent government's constitution or by-laws...
...Liston argued in an interview last night thatthe council has mechanisms to change itsconstitution and by-laws, and said he wasn't surewhether a referendum could "trump" thosemechanisms...
Following his original line of reasoning,Liston said that with a mechanism in place foramending the constitution, no referendum couldforce the council to implement such changes--as areferendum on the four related issues would...
...that seems to suggest that a referendumdealing with the constitution can't be binding,"Liston said...
...urged students unhappy with the council's performance to use powers already at their disposal. "If people don't think we're doing our jobs, they should vote us out," Liston said...