Word: referenda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, in a similar referenda--one among freshmen and another in Mather House--students also voted to break the boycott. But despite the referendum votes last year, the CRR boycott was maintained. In Mather House, a group of 11 students, chosen at random as the Faculty mandated in its CRR selection procedures, decided not to nominate any of its members for CRR duty. Last year's Freshmen Council, after discussing the close referendum vote, decided to swing in line with the Houses and decided not to begin the selection process. The Freshmen Council could do the same this year...
...recent editorials in The Crimson raise a paradox. The first deplored the "pervasive influence of corporate contributions" on the Massachusetts referenda; the second hailed Jimmy Carter's election '"triumph" when "members of major industrial unions supported him nationally by a two to one margin...
...results of last month's referenda in Massachusetts showed clearly the power of massive spending, and the list of contributors to the campaigns against several of the questions shows even more clearly the weaknesses of the present campaign financing laws in this state...
Less than a week after the election, the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance began auditing the disclosure statements of all committees in favor of and opposed to the referenda questions. And, with good reason, for it now appears that one of the institutions of old-style politics the new campaign laws were supposed to eliminate, the blind or "dummy" committee, is not yet dead...
...committees for or against referenda questions, the champion spender was the Committee to Protect Jobs and the Use of Convenience Containers, which opposed the bill to ban nonreturnable soft drink and beer containers. In campaigning against the bill, which would have mandated a deposit of at least 5 cents on each bottle or can sold in the state, the Committee to Protect Jobs spent a total of $1.21 million. Of that amount, only 23 per cent, or about $283,000, came from Massachusetts residents or locally based corporations. Seventy-seven per cent of the money pumped into the anti-bottle...