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Several students at the meeting--which took place directly before the Student Assembly meeting and was attended mostly by assembly members--called on members of the constitution committee to provide evidence that minorities would not be adequately represented in the council without the minority provision, which calls for seven minority...
Several students at the meeting said they did not think that most undergraduates would support such a provision. But Steven C. Perry '85, an assembly member who said last night he favored the proposal, added that much of the negative response by students to the minority provision stems from their...
"A lot of students I've talked to think [the provision] gives each minority a double vote on the council," Perry said. He added that when students are informed that the proposal actually gives minorities what amounts to largely a symbolic role on the council they "wonder why people are...
But Veronica Sarrato '84 said she "philosophically" disagreed with the provision. "As a minority student, I don't see any reason that one group should have special advantages over another."
Despite the number of students at the open meeting who questioned the minority provision, the assembly in a straw vote later last night rejected, 22-18, a proposal calling for the plank to be dropped from the constitution.