Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voting on the Hilles Library referendum -- whether to exclude grad students from the Library, or limit the number of boys, or keep all boys out -- began yesterday in Radcliffe dormitories. The voting will continue today, and the results will be announced by the Radcliffe Government Association Wednesday. Mrs. Bunting makes the final decision...
They can vote in today's referendum to put a quota on the number of boys allowed in an evening. The vision of turning away the end of the line is truly absurd. Or they can vote to keep out grad students, who don't use reserve books anyway. Or they can vote to get rid of the boys altogether. Cliffies should know better...
Charles de Gaulle ordered last week's referendum after the two rival tribes rioted in the streets of Djibouti during his visit there last August. De Gaulle sternly warned that French troops would never be committed to preserve "the appearance of a state," would withdraw and leave Somaliland to civil war unless the voters clearly demonstrated that they wished to remain with France. To help matters along, police rounded up some 6,000 Somali tribesmen in and around Djibouti before the balloting and expelled them to Somalia...
...ballot is a yes/no referendum, because RGA could only find one candidate for each office. "We had to figure a way to save face," one representative said...
...College's decision-making mechanism. Many developments took Monro by surprise. Last May, for example, a group of students - many of them freshmen--decided that the University had decided too arbitrarily on a policy of dealing with the Selective Service System. They decided to ask for a referendum on the matter, specifically urging that Harvard not compute class rankings to be forwarded to local draft boards. In several days, they collected about 1500 signatures supporting the call for a referendum, and went to see Monro. The University Administration consistently resisted the referendum and the idea that the ranking policy become...