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Campus activism entered Adams House dining hall Friday, as Adams residents Alexander H. deWeese '98-'01 and Amanda C. Davis '01 gathered 200 signatures in support of a Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) petition to increase affordable housing in the Boston area.
Ten council members have sponsored a petition to remove Burton from office, charging that he took, without permission, buttons from the office of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) and misrepresented himself to the council's election commission.
The petition was sponsored by 10 council members, including Todd E. Plants '01, Frank X. Leonard '01 and Sterling P. A. Darling '01, all three of whom ran against Burton's ticket in the council's presidential election.
Both Burton and the council president, Fentrice D. Driskell '01, are black. All the sponsors of the petition to remove him are white, a fact that was not lost on Driskell.
Closer to home is a remark which surfaced in the wake of the recent UC election fiasco as Crimson writer Parker Conrad interviewed ex-candidate Leonard about the petition brought against John Burton. Conrad quotes Leonard as saying that "John Burton epitomizes everything the average student hates about the council...