Word: referenda
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Voters in Cambridge will receive three ballots tomorrow: one for City Council, one for School Committee, and a third they might not even open, containing this year's six non-binding referendum questions. Below is a list of those referenda...
...students, who, since they are transient by nature, might oppose conversion of rental units. That job may be difficult: in the last municipal election, where housing was also an issue, the predominantly-student third precinct of the sixth ward turned out only 349 of 1462 registered voters. Ballot referenda on South Africa, nuclear power and the Kennedy candidacy may draw more students to the ballot box this year, but the issues are no guarantee. "Based on their past experience, many politicians in this city tend to take the student vote pretty lightly," one city council candidate said last week...
...indispensable to decisionmaking in a democracy, and this is not less true because speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual." The Court argued, rather naively it seems, that "There was no showing that the relative voice of corporations has been overwhelming or even significant in influencing referenda in Massachusetts...
Student Assembly referenda can produce unexpected results: last semester's poll brought Harvard students free toilet paper, and last week's vote on political parties spurred the Assembly's chairman to resign her membership in the Coalition for a Democratic University...
However, the CHUL proposals allow CHUL to set case-by-case the necessary percentage for student boycott approval depending on the costs a particular boycott would entail. This policy is misguided. Boycott referenda should be uniformly decided by a simple majority, and they should be binding...