Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A group of students trying to organize a chapter of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) at Harvard will begin a door-to-door petition drive tonight in an effort to obtain the approval of half the undergraduate student body, a provision that Massachusetts PIRG requires before a chapter can...
A major objection to the PIRG petitioning in the houses was the so-called "negative checkoff" provision, which adds a fee of $5 per semester to each undergraduate's term bill unless the student checks a box which exempts him from payment.
Stephen J. Morgan '70, executive director of Massachusetts PIRG, said last week that a positive checkoff provision would not be substituted for the negative one if the current petition fails to attract the necessary number of signatures, since a positive checkoff would create administrative difficulties for the PIRG staff.
Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal chided the businessmen for so solidly opposing the President's tax bill. In reply, some of the guests asked why, at a time of record trade deficits, the Administration was seeking to end the provision deferring taxes on some export profits and earnings abroad...
Countryman was more wary of the new provision, however, stating that the government can still prosecute under the old "destruction of the government by fraud" provision. The government based its unsuccessful prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg '52 in the Pentagon papers case on that provision.