Word: referendum
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...CRIMSON recently carried a letter by several SDS members attacking YPSL's petition which calls for a student referendum to decide whether ROTC should continue to enjoy special privileges on campus. The issue, the letter declares is, not ROTC's special status. Rather, there is no issue: "Morally, then, there is no 'right' to be part of an an organization like ROTC...
Regarding the SDS letter against ROTC being on campus in the October 21 edition of the Crimson: We would like to know just when the SDS obtained a copyright on morality? We reject the notion that by allowing a student referendum to decide the status of ROTC, Harvard is submitting to the "narrow self interests of some Harvard students," or "welcoming the instruments of repression...
This means that Naval, Army, and Air Force ROTC should be deprived of course credit and prohibited from using Harvard facilities, and that all ROTC scholarships, in case of need, should be converted to regular Harvard scholarships. No referendum of Harvard students can change the functions of officers in the United States military "services." The suggestion of such a referendum reminds us of Stephen Douglas's conception of a "democratic" solution to the problem of the expansion of slavery before the Civil War. Under Douglas's plan, the white residents of the territorial areas (Nebraska and Kansas) would vote...
Premier George Papadopoulos has yearned for a public endorsement of his military-backed regime ever since the colonels seized power 17 months ago. Last week he won an endorsement -of sorts. In a nationwide referendum, 92% of the 4,600,000 voters who went to the polls approved the regime's carefully tailored new constitution. With its call for parliamentary democracy and the retention of monarchy, the constitution was ostensibly worth voting for. The catch is that its final clause reserves to the Premier and his former army colleagues the right to say when the constitution's provisions...
...post-referendum speech, Papadopoulos made it plain he was in no hurry to surrender power. He reiterated the junta's favorite theme that the "goals of the revolution" must be carried out. By that, the former colonels mean that they want to purify Greek political life, immunizing the fiery-tempered Greeks against the vicious infighting that has marked their parliamentary history. Practically every Greek realizes that Papadopoulos & Co. have set themselves a next to impossible task, so there is no telling how many years the didactic colonels may persist in their mission...