Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates for the Student Council favor a student referendum to decide whether or not the Council should continue to exist. John S. Gracey '59 and D. Dwight Dogherty '59 both feel that the Council should not exist in its present form...
...referendum has been scheduled for early February, PBH president William B. Freehling '58 stated...
George C. Pontikes '58, chairman of the Council Election Committee, said that 85 percent of the 100 referendum ballots already counted agreed to the proposal. Results from Dudley, which completes its voting today, will not influence the decision, Pontikes said, because of the tremendous margin from the other seven Houses...
...Spoils. State Senator Sam Englehardt Jr., author of the original gerrymander, has already attempted to counter the boycott by asking for an investigation of Tuskegee's huge Veterans Administration Hospital, where nearly 2,000 (mostly Negroes) work. And up for referendum just eight days before Christmas is State Constitutional Amendment No. 18, a plan to consider abolishing Macon County (now 84% Negro) by dividing its land among five neighboring counties. A poll by the Montgomery Advertiser indicated that Macon County is in favor of the abolition amendment. If the rest of the state agrees, Tuskegee will lose its position...
With the establishment of such a committee, all need for the Student Council would disappear. And since many on the Council, as well as most in the student body, seem to feel that this would be a good idea, a referendum to abolish the Council should be the Student Council's next--and, hopefully, last--project...