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Chretien and Day also stand at odds on issues surrounding human rights legislation. Day is in favor of referenda asking Canadians to make abortion illegal and reinstate capital punishment; Chretien is vehemently opposed. While under Chretien, the Canadian government recently extended to homosexuals the right to legal marriage, Day has railed against laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination...
...Election Day, after John and Jane Q. Public have cast their ballots for local, state and national candidates, they'll face another conundrum in the voting booth: Statewide initiatives. This year, 42 states offer a potpourri of referenda on topics ranging from gay rights to gun control to school vouchers - and a few of the most controversial promise to make national headlines...
Although a termbill hike to $50 narrowly failed a student referenda last fall, the council should not hesitate to raise the termbill itself. A student government without enough money to perform its fundamental charge is no student government at all. And while the council has not been a shining example of representative government, it has reformed itself through down-sizing which resulted in more competitive elections this fall. An apathetic student body--voter turnout in the fall elections was predictably low--should not be allowed to slowly strangle the council out of existence by constricting its coffers...
...That day, students voted in referenda to downsize the council to 50 members but not to increase its funding by upping the term bill fee from $20 to $50--ensuring next year's council will be small and broke...
Chad A. Wathington '00 said he believed the referenda had left the council hamstrung by an insufficient budget and too few members, and announced his resignation as a result...