Word: petitioner
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The Young Report calls for an increase in the number of signatures required for petition candidates to the Overseers, an official administrative voice on nominating committees and endorsements of official candidates included with the alumni ballots.
The council resolution supports moreinformative campaigns by Board candidates, opposesincreasing requirements for petition candidatesand agrees with the Young Report's proposal for anon-voting administrator to serve on nominationcommittees.
The question, which is binding, reached the ballot by initiative petition after nearly unanimous defeat by both houses of the legislature in May of 1988.
Four hundred students signed a petition last week calling on Gilmore to apologize publicly to Mukherjee. The petition, sponsored by the CGLA, also calls for a multi-cultural sensitivities program to be instituted in the athletic department.
Administrators are holding emergency meetings with student leaders this morning and next Tuesday to contest the petition's legality or to negotiate a compromise, said Epps, a 17-year member of the board. The process would be halted if students agree to withdraw the petition, he said.