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According to the council's constitution, "any question can be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the Undergraduates...
...council constitution says that "any issue may be committed to a referendum... by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates...
...constitution is elegant in its simplicity: "Any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." Upon receiving the petition, however, Gabay decided that this simple clause actually implies all manner of complex restrictions on our right of referendum. But 1,100 students signed the petition in good faith. Gabay's objection implies that more than 440 signatories would, if we called them, say, "No, I did not know there were five questions on the referendum, and I don't think students should be able...
Under the terms of the council constitution, "[a]ny question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." More than 1,100 signatures were submitted to the council, indicating that "[w]e, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum." The council does have a legitimate interest in assuring that the signatures submitted on such a petition are valid...
...each of the 1,128 signatures pertained to the petition calling for all five questions, well over one-tenth of undergraduates have demanded that five questions be brought before the entire College in a binding referendum. Thus, the question of "interpretation" quickly evaporates--unless, of course, one has a vested interest in distorting the expressed will of undergraduates...