Word: referenda
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...from this group the four student members of the CRR would be randomly selected. The system would have worked had even one House agreed to select such a panel. But, embarrassingly enough, every single one-every Radcliffe and Harvard House and the Freshman class-defeated the proposal in referenda, and declined to participate...
...students - all of whom stressed that they did not consider themselves official representatives of their Houses - began meeting some two months ago after the Houses unanimously decided in referenda not to send student representatives...
...final terms of the treaty were agreed upon in January, and since then groups have been organizing city-wide and university-wide referenda throughout the country...
...students, nevertheless students were allowed only one-third of the votes on the Committee. Nor did they have any say in the determination of this ratio. Finally, the Committee was set up to function, and has functioned, even if it had no student representation at all. So the recent referenda of all the Houses, in which the students rejected the CRR's election procedures and refused to send representatives to it, will not prevent the CRR from continuing to function in its actual capacity: not as a protector of the pure academic community, but, in the words...
...voting down the CRR electoral procedures in referenda the past two weeks, students have decided not to send delegates...