Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, inter-House transfer candidates must directly petition the Master of the House into which they hope to move. Before applications are due, Houses make public how many openings they have.
But under state law, if owners of 20 percent of the land affected opppose the changes, the measure needs seven votes to pass--something supporters say would be next to impossible to secure. At the council meeting a week ago, the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce submitted a petition which they...
Steiker last year organized a petition calling on the Review to change its controversial practice of selecting some of its editors on the basis of their first year grades alone. At the time, Steiker criticized grades as arbitrary and inappropriate criteria for Review membership.
More than 400 first year students signed the petition, pledging to withhold their grades from the Review if 75 percent of their classmates promised to do the same.
The petition fell several signatures short of its goal. In the wake of the protest, however, the Review voted to abandon its system of selecting members solely on the basis of grades, adding increased weight to a writing competition.