Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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* A leftover of the old Progressive era, the device allows citizens, by a two-stage process of petition and referendum, to oust an incumbent. Rarely attempted seriously, recall did unseat a Los Angeles mayor in 1938.
The petition also stated that suspension or expulsion "will only be divisive and appear vindictive". The Committee's statement implies that any disciplinary action, including no action, would be "divisive to some portion" of the community.
Robert A. Hicks '71, one of the petition's authors, said that he has not been given the chance to answer the Committee's questions about the petition. Hicks and the other authors-Deborah B. Johnson '71 and Mark A. Faller '71- appeared before the Committee May 20. Hicks said...
Roger Rosenblatt, author of the Committee's statement on the petition, said he realized that the students "did not have enough time to develop their arguments fully," and that he regretted the situation.
(Due to a typing error, the second sentence of the Committee's statement states that the petition asks the Committee to "neither sever nor suspect any student found to be involved" in the occupation. The word suspend should be substituted for suspect, Rosenblatt said.