Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to requesting money from the Dean's Office, the Council is proposing a plan to have one-third of the Council's membership appointed rather than elected. A referendum on this issue will go to the student body...
Quoting Leland, Winans said, "The financial problem is not the major one in the consideration of NSA." Since supporters of the Association have offered to provide half the cost of membership, Winans asserted that, "it is absolutely necessary that the Council do no less than hold a referendum." One member of the Council speaking against the motion declared, "The NSA has tended to use Harvard's name for certain proposals and viewpoints which we haven't had a chance to speak...
...referendum should give de Gaulle the popular legitimacy he needs and wants. The subsequent course of the new state will depend on two things: Algeria and the November elections. Whether de Gaulle will invest his authority in an attempt at putting a rapid end to the Algerian conflict remains to be seen, for the margin of action is so small that the referendum is not likely to make a big difference...
...feel that students at Harvard should be given a chance to express their own views in a referendum, and not be led by the...policies of the president of the Harvard Student Council...
That argument was echoed again this week by proponents of the NSA. The Society for Minority Rights and the Freedom Council, as well as individual students, have urged that the Council reconsider its decision, and that the matter appear before the student body in the form of a referendum...