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Sawalla’s motion to remove position papers eventually halted the debate. The council approved his motion, 32-3, with one abstention...
Following the vote, Lurie made a motion that would require the council to reconsider the issue of the position papers at its meeting next Sunday and thus, postpone the fee increase referendum—slated to start this Wednesday—for another week. P.K. Agarwalla ’04 initially seconded the motion, though he eventually changed his mind—a reversal that led to the failure of Lurie’s motion...
Lurie explained after the meeting that his motion was an attempt to ensure that a temporary majority in this week’s meeting would not overturn a careful decision to have “two full position papers” originally made by the council...
...purpose of this motion is when there is a very vocal minority and the temporary majority is doing something contrary to the will of the council,” Lurie said...
...temperature and humidity controlled cavern which makes the Widener stacks look like a tot lot, the government has stored about 10 million pages of Kennedy's papers, along with 2 million pages from the Democratic National Committee. There are 30,000 books, 62,000 photographs, 2 million feet of motion picture film, and 1000 oral histories, transcribed from interviews with people who dealt with Kennedy in the White House...