Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifty-three per cent of the College voted in a referendum, held this week, which resulted in the abolishment...
...will dissolve as soon as a new government is set up, but since neither of the two alternative student government proposals received a majority vote, a run-off referendum is necessary...
...decision resulted from fears that a second referendum could not arouse the 50 per cent vote required by RGA rules to validate a referendum...
...referendum will decide between the Radcliffe Undergraduate Association--an organization which would be bound by the decisions of the College Council, Radcliffe's highest governing body--and the more autonomous Radcliffe Union of Students. The RUS would not be subject to any higher authority and would attempt to place two student representatives on the College Council...
...suspended the 50 per cent rule because of the apathetic reaction to the first referendum. The common reaction from those asked to vote was "blah," one RGA member said. "I saw many people tearing up the ballot," she continued...