Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrew H. Mott '62 has organized a group of University students to distribute information favoring fluoridation of the Cambridge water supply. Cambridge voters will decide in a referendum next Tuesday whether or not the city's water should be fluoridated...
Council Debates Referendum...
Debate thus centered more on the question of a referendum, than on NSA itself. Abraham F. Lowenthal '61 argued that there was no need for a referendum "on a question which the students find quite dull," while Edward A. Segal '60 asserted that the Council, being more aware of NSA's activities, should act as a representative body and make its own decision...
Supporters of a referendum claimed that last year's action had set a precedent and that "we owe the students a referendum." Eugene H. Zagat '61 also stressed the need for arousing student interest by means of a College-wide vote...
...Student Council has decided to let a referendum determine whether Harvard rejoins the National Student Association. It is clear from the report of the council's observers that many of the procedural faults of the NSA which were instrumental in Harvard's withdrawal last year have been corrected, and it seems reasonable to assume that those remaining soon will be. The decision revolves, therefore, upon the basic issue of whether NSA is the type of organization in which Harvard wishes to be a member. The answer...