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...council passed a bill Feb. 26 known as the Nelson-Grimmelmann act, which asked Lewis either to sign into college law or veto all future legislation...
Presidential candidate Rudd W. Coffey '97 said that he does not think the Nelson-Grimmelmann act is a success because it does not provide the students with a strong enough voice...
...guess is that the motivation here was to use it as a tool to embarrass the dean," said Jeremy R. Jenkins '97-'98, who resigned from the council after it passed the Nelson-Grimmelmann bill. "But that seems a rather poor premise, considering that Dean Lewis has already shown that he is quite willing to go against student opinion to support his principles...
Bill sponsor Eric M. Nelson '99 thinks the problem has not been the conception of the bill, but its gross misuse by council members...
...When we signed this bill, Dean Lewis was the first dean ever to agree to give the U.C. a fairly significant amount of political capital," said Nelson, who is a Crimson editor. "But I think if the bill is going to have significant life span, then its provisions have to be treated by the council with more responsibility...