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Davis' petition called for a council referendumon five issues: the hike; the check box option onundergraduate term bills that allows students toforego the council's fee; the distribution ofunspent council funds to the house committees;popular election of council executives; andsemiannual general elections.
Davis submitted her petition to the fullcouncil on April 10.
But Gabay charged that Davis' petition hadmanipulated student discontent on the term billfee hike in order to get all five issues on thereferendum.
Since the petition "gave no student the rightto decide which of the five they wanted, it wasbasically packed," Gabay said last week.
And as specified in Davis' petition, theexecutive board agreed that the results of thereferendum would be binding on the council. Thatmeans that a three-fourths vote of the councilcould overturn the will of the students.