Word: proposall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defeated was the proposal to reduce the size of the vote needed for amendment. Over half of the students who voted rejected the proposal to cut the two-thirds requirement to a simple majority.
The proposed re-evaluation fulfills, to a considerable degree, the Council's promise to raise itself by its own bootstraps. The proposal to enlarge the Council is, in itself, admirable, since the group's most valuable work is done in committee and through reports--many of which have been prepared...
But the most important changes which adoption of the report would establish lie in the composition of the Council's membership. The Council's existence has rested on the democratic but unrealistic belief that it is the spearhead of student opinion. Elections affording an ambitious, personally motivated politician the opportunity...
Even if the project changes on tomorrow's referendum are passed, the Council will have still further to go to establish itself as a reliable instrument of student ideas. But enacting the new proposal is a necessary preliminary.
All in all, life at UCI is fairly similar to that at an American college, yet the campus still has a distinctively African orientation. It shows up in little ways: the beautiful mahogany and ebony furniture, the stylized Yoruba art work in the Protestant and Catholic chapels. And, more important...