Word: referenda
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...Lowell House Committee will probably organize similar referenda in "situations which we feel could possibly blow up and situations where to date students haven't been heard," Shutkin said. "It's about time that the House committee anticipated problems...
peated Rosenberg's arguments. He cited the Massachusetts statute on referenda which states that once all legal requirements have been met "the referendum shall go on the ballot." He pointed out that the statute makes no reference to the legality of the bill itself...
...referendum proposal was criticized by several other speakers, however. Kenneth M. Glazier '69, a member of the SFAC, argued that the YPSL referendum was unsatisfactory because it excluded the SDS petition and because it was not to be binding on the Faculty. Glazier also said that such referenda tend to undermine the various representative organizations at Harvard...
...limitations of particular groups, as well as efficiency of operation. The process of drawing students into more vital participation in the governance of the university is infinitely complex. It cannot be resolved by either abstractions or tables of organization. It does not mean that issues must be settled by referenda. We are convinced, however, that ways must be found, beginning now, by which students can meaningfully influence the education afforded them and other aspects of the university activities...
...town that wishes to fluoridate must present the issue in a public referendum. A petition signed by 12 per cent of a town's registered voters is required to place the referendum on the ballot. Scare statements from spurious medical "authorities" have in the past defeated many fluoridation referenda in Massachusetts...