Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INITIATIVE: Under the last constitution it was the council's duty "to hold a referendum in exceptional cases, where widespread feeling demands, or when a petition signed by 200 students requests it, on any proposal concerned with student affairs," Meeting on October 29, the council decided to abolish the students...
David M. Little '18, Master of Adams House, said last night that the sign-in requirement has been waived on Yale weekends in previous years, but that he believed this is the first time that such a provision has been made for other weekends.
Deciding that it acted "hastily" Monday when it cut the referendum clause from its new constitution, the Student Council met on short notice last night and restored the provision.
Last night an "overwhelming majority" voted to put the provision back, but new a petition of 500 signatures is required to force a referendum.
The original plan was to have the nine students here for one semester and then to replace them with nine other Germans next semester. But, Hawkins said, the McCarran Act provision barring former members of fascist groups may prevent any other German students from entering this country. "The students now...