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...nuclear annihilation, and as residents of a nation which spends a great deal of money and effort to prop up unpopular and democratic regimes around the world, we can hardly avoid being concerned with these issues. The claim that these issues are too complex for local or state referenda, or even for the average citizen to deal with at all, is simply a device to prevent Americans from using the most effective democratic institution available to them. This merely guarantees that the military, the defense industry and a handful of politicians will continue to exercise a preponderant and dangerous influence...
...Jull between the close of balloting on the recent student referendums and the reporting of results seems an appropriate time to comment on the controversy these referenda engendered. As members of the Radcliffe-Harvard Peace Alliance, the primary sponsor of the question on the arms race and interventionism, we were disappointed by several aspects of the Undergraduate Council's handing and The Crimson, reporting of the referendum. We do want to begin, however, by thanking all those Council members who collected ballots and those students who voted...
Although both questions passed by more than three-to-one margins, only slightly more than one-fourth of all students turned out to vote in the Council's first campus-wide referenda, which were plagued by several logistical problems...
Despite the low turnout--a total of 178.3 of 6526 students cast ballots--students involved with the referenda yesterday defended the results, noting a lack of publicity about the voting...
...Positive results show that the referenda were worthwhile," Sesha Pratap '84, chairman of the Council committee which conducted the polls, said, adding that "we definitely have to work on increasing student involvement...