Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only one of the 70-odd communities participating in the Model Cities program that gives residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area east of Central Square--control over the board running the program and the right to veto any of the board's proposals in a referendum. It is believed that all 29 proposals will be approved...
...neighborhood referendum on 29 separate projects to improve housing, recreation, education, and other services in the neighborhood began Thursday and will end tonight. Each project must receive a majority of the votes cast in order to be included in the formal first-year program which is to be sent to the City Council and then to the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...Referendum workers reported yesterday that voting in the referendum was running to about 60 per cent of the vote in an earlier referendum which approved the organization of the program. They attributed the smaller turnout primarily to bad weather...
David Guberman '71, a member of YPSL, called the SDS plan to ban ROTC from Harvard "anti-democratic and anti-civil-libertarian." Answering charges that the YPSL referendum proposal is unacceptable because it does not include a choice of complete abolition of ROTC, Guberman said that "such a position does not deserve to be on the ballot. It is a fundamental characteristic of a civil liberty," he continued, "that if it is subject to a vote, it is not a civil liberty...
...referendum proposal was criticized by several other speakers, however. Kenneth M. Glazier '69, a member of the SFAC, argued that the YPSL referendum was unsatisfactory because it excluded the SDS petition and because it was not to be binding on the Faculty. Glazier also said that such referenda tend to undermine the various representative organizations at Harvard...