Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michigan modernized its constitution four years ago, but the proud old traditions of initiative and referendum survived the streamlining. Dating from the turn of the century and designed to prevent high-handed legislatures from disregarding the will of the people, initiative-referendum provisions exist in nearly half the states. Such clauses can occasionally produce some unintended results, as Michigan has discovered in a case that recently came-quite literally-to light...
...Eastern Time Zone, making for 10 p.m. sunsets in some western towns under Daylight Saving. Residents of more easterly Detroit, however, were loath to lose the extra hour of leisure-time illumination that Daylight Saving gave them. To get the hour back again, they resorted to the referendum...
...source of continuity through the HPC's three terms, will be gone. It is hard to overestimate the role Monro has played on the committee. From the beginning, he has been one of its strongest supporters. When the old HCUA decided to abolish itself, it gave the college a referendum offering a choice between the HCUA and the new HPC-HUC. Conspicuously absent was the choice of nothing at all; the HCUA feared, quite rightly, that if given that choice the college would take nothing. As it was, less than half of the college bothered to vote. Reed Ellis remembers...
...seem increasingly strange to the Harvard community too as months pass. The HPC seems now to exist in a vacuum. It is sheltered above by the good will of Monro and below by the apathy of the masses, from ever having actually to define its role. Established by student referendum to "cooperate with Faculty and administration," the HPC has played it just that way. It sees its role, in Trosper's words, as "providing a structured way to present student opinion in some semblance of a well thought-out consensus. Then we have to trust in the Faculty's ability...
...because, during her seven years as president of Radcliffe, Mrs. Bunting has deliberately sought out student and alumnae opinion. While plans for a House system were being formulated in 1961, Mrs. Bunting worked hand-in-hand with a large committee of Cliffies and submitted her recommendations to a student referendum before they were presented to the College Council...