Word: referenda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just wasn't sexy enough. While 43 percent of the student body voted in the Undergraduate Council elections in December, a paltry 13 percent registered their opinion on the budget referenda which followed on its heels. Why? Poor timing and poor publicity, not to mention apathy. In the future, the council and the student body should take more seriously the issues, and not merely the personalities spotlighted in the election...
Students logging into their e-mail accounts to vote on the Undergraduate Council budget referenda yesterday found the position paper arguing against the issue missing, a mistake that some council members said will skew the results...
...referenda--which would increase funding to student groups and house committees--have been overshadowed by the council elections, leaving no one in charge of administering the referenda, said Marco B. Simons '97 of the Election Commission. The commission has no jurisdiction over the referenda...
...vice president of the council is charged with administering referenda, but Rawlins as an election candidate did not have access to the computer...
...voting will run until Saturday at 5 p.m. The referenda need to achieve a 25 percent turnout for the issues to be binding on the council...