Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Referendum Attacked...
...proportional representation referendum stands a considerably better chance of passing, according to Cambridge Civic groups contacted yesterday. The League of Women Voters and the Cambridge Civic Association have bitterly attacked what they termed "the sneaky wording" of the referendum. Both strongly oppose it as "a referendum to destroy the Plan E Charter...
Radcliffe will vote next week on a referendum proposing a major Student Council change. Instead of class representatives, the new system provides for Council members from the dormitories, the "functional units" of the college. The plan was proposed by Nancy Barrow '53, President of Radcliffe's Student Government Association, and was approved by the Cedar Hill Conference in September...
...conducting a referendum on issues," he said. "We're picking a man to be president. Nobody knows what the issues will be in the next four years...
...last applications of the ruling came in 1950. A student referendum had demanded that all anti-Negro and anti-Jewish discriminatory clause be removed from the constitutions of Columbia's 16 fraternities. The Dean's Office warned that if any such clause remained in a constitution by 1956, the guilty fraternity would forfeit its right to use the Columbia name, and, incidentally, Columbia facilities. Thus far, only two of the 16 fraternities (whose total enrollment is 640, or over 25 percent of the college), have failed to comply with the 1950 ruling...