Word: referendum
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...addition to the referendum the Council will poll graduate student attitudes on the war, the draft, defense contracts, campus recruitment, and the role within the university of the Graduate Student Association, which has some 1500 members. All graduate students will be eligible to vote on the referendum at any of seven polling places next week...
...vote reaffirmed the Council's earlier resolution, passed at a meeting on January 15, to hold a referendum calling for "the immediate withdrawal of United States armed forces from Vietnam...
Last night's vote was held because of ambiguity over the exact nature of the January resolution. The minutes of the January meeting-- which detailed the wording of the referendum and its "binding" upon the Council--were apparently lost in the flurries of exam period excitement...
...last night's meeting in Harkness Commons, there was heated debate over both the referendum and the poll. Margaret A. Theeman, second year graduate student in Social Relations, led the forces favoring the referendum. "Harvard graduate students should have a chance to express themselves on issues more important than new television sets," she said. "I want to remind the Council that there's a war going...
Allan Parker, also a second year student, replied that the national issues raised by the referendum were beyond the scope of the Council's work. He said that a poll would be an equally vaild form of student expression...