Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council may also be expected to attempt the abolition of class representative posts, and to try for a referendum, possibly in the fall, to "strengthen the Council," Leland said. Leland used as his platform the report of the Council Evaluation Committee, which he chairmans, which is reported to call for an end to class-elected Council posts...
...Students want to know more about the Council, and should be able to talk with their House representatives about the Council," Freehling stated. He believes that the Council has a definite function in the College, and opposes any referendum on its continued existence...
...chairman of the Student Council Reevaluation Committee, Leland considers a referendum "necessary." However, he stated that the vote should be delayed until fall, when the changes of the Reevaluation Committee have become effective...
...indulging himself with expensive chatter, Dodger President Walter O'Malley was doing some fast talking of his own. But he was not half so successful as Hypnotist Edelman. Wary citizens of Los Angeles were not the easy marks he thought them, and they insisted on a time-consuming referendum before they would sell him the land in Chavez Ravine that he wants for a ballpark. Wrigley Field, the only L.A. playground O'Malley now owns, is too small for big-league crowds, and Walter has been buttering up the city fathers of Pasadena, trying to rent their Rose...
Lawrence Ekpebu of Lowell, Chitranjan Kapur of Winthrop, and Lionel B. Spiro of Leverett, were chosen to represent the class of '60. Both Dogherty and Gracey had expressed opinions favoring changes in the present status of the Student Council, whereas Leland criticized any plan for a referendum on the matter...