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Next, we move on to the saga of Vice president Joshua "Lieutenant Colonel" D. Liston '95, the current corruption king of the Council. Liston's censure was withdrawn when the Council (with barely 55 percent of its seats voting), agreed with Parliamentarian David A. Smith '94 that the procedure had been invalid. We must ask why on earth Smith waited until after the vote to decide whether it was meaningless...
...council voted last night to overturn the decision of council Parliamentarian David A. Smith '94, who had ruled the student vote binding...
Davis also said the vote to make the referendumadvisory is unconstitutional because the councilvoted only to overturn the parliamentarian'sdecision, which requires just a simple majority...
Despite the inevitable residue from "political scandal," the council has a duty to students and to itself to not ignore its own by-laws--especially when enforcement of the bylaws directly affects the quality of student representation. As David A. Smith '94, the council parliamentarian, has said, "Those members should not have been allowed to vote at previous council meetings. It changes the number [required] for quorum...
...checked over the petitions," said Council Parliamentarian David A. Smith '94, "and they're air-tight...