Word: referenda
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...places at once. We could begin the Council meeting without them. Some confusion resulted from our late start. Adding to this situation was the fact that the report of the Communications and Finance Committee included a highly controversial issue that arose from this week's referenda...
When the members of the Constitutional Convention drafted the provision which allows undergraduates to force the Council to administer referenda, it was intended to be an accountability measure to prevent the Council from straying too far from student concerns. We did not foresee that political organizations would use this provision to implement referenda on questions of little relevance to the Council itself. No Constitution can be perfect in its first draft, so it should be no great surprise that some things did not work as originally conceived. There is strong feeling in the Council that the Constitution must be amended...
...addition, the Constitution provides no guidelines on how referenda should be run. Unsurprisingly, some disagreements arose when the Communication and Finance Committee attempted to fulfill its responsibility to administer these referenda without guidelines for doing...
Students voting on referenda sponsored by the Undergraduate Council last week overwhelmingly endorsed both a nuclear freeze and the divestiture of Harvard's stock in a company with business dealings in South Africa...
Pratap said that his committee would submit amendments to the full Council on Sunday to change the rules governing referenda. The amendment, if passed, would not permit any Council-sponsored referendum on any topic not directly applying to either the University, the council, or the student body. The amendment would need two-thirds majority for passage...