Word: petitioners
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Several council members, including Melissa S. Lane '88 of Dunster House, who is seeking the student government's chairmanship, last month gathered more than 700 signatures on a petition calling for the referendum. Council officers say the referendum is costing the student government approximately $150.
King's wife, Joyce, four of his six children, and a five-month-old granddaughter joined the South Boston community activist on the platform as he marked the start of a national petition campaign against the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction bill, which he called "unconstitutional."
This referendum is not a vote of confidence in Brian Offut. The more than seven hundred students who signed the petition on the referendum were interested in divestiture, not petty politicking. When the students of Harvard College go to the polls next week, they will be voting on divestiture and...
Today we have submitted to the Vice-Chairperson a petition that asks the Council to conduct a binding referendum on divestiture. This petition bears the signatures of more than seven hundred students, better than a ninth of the undergraduate population.
Less than a month later, a petition drive led by WRKO radio talk show host Jerry Williams has gathered enough signatures to challenge the law by referendum. Williams and his followers contend that the seatbelt law in fringes on citizens' personal rights.