Word: referenda
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...College step in and run the next vote. You replied that it would be a sad day for Harvard when the student government could not be trusted to run a referendum. I submit that today is that sad day. And if the council's new move to prevent referenda from ever arising again is allowed to stand, this embarrassing condition will likely continue for the foreseeable future...
...vice president, Liston is the officialadministrator of all referenda...
Jillson said she does not believe that theconvention will endorse it, and lamented thecomplicated procedure for getting referenda on theballot...
...forget about the attitudes of Council executives for a moment--the U.C. Constitution itself could use an overhaul. A continuation of the section on referenda reads, "Such a referendum will be advisory unless the provisions of the referendum make its results binding. Such an order can be overturned by three-fourths of the Council." Students should find this language intolerable...
...poor Clinton, who would really rather have this issue just go away, finds that Congress' upcoming vote on the treaty has been turned into yet another referendum on his Presidency (how many referenda do we need before we can agree that the verdict is thumbs-down...