Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...referendum stems from an effort last Spring to have the University reconsider its policy of supplying students with their rank-in-class. The students backing the campaign contended that rank-in-class information was "educationally harmful" because it spurred unnecessary competition...
Results from the referendum will probably be tabulated long before the Faculty gets around to discussing the issue at one of its monthly meetings. Dean Ford, who promised backers of last spring's campaign that he would raise the issue, said yesterday that the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) had already discussed the draft, but had reached no concensus on a new policy...
...still preparing the details of the poll, and it may be two or three weeks before the referendum will be conducted. According to Maisel, the polls will probably not ask about Vietnam. "I think we're going to stay away from that one--mainly because it's a political question and not a student-government type thing...
Realizing that they were enjoying too much of a good thing, more than 800,000 Uruguayans signed petitions against the present system. So last week Uruguay's National Assembly voted to hold a public referendum on Nov. 27 that seems almost certain to return the country to strong, one-man presidential rule...
Parish pressure has forced some ministers to be less open in their advocacy of the Negro cause. In California, virtually every church leader spoke out in 1964 against a referendum to repeal the state's "fair housing" act. The clergymen's advice was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. Today, even though California's Supreme Court has declared the referendum decision unconstitutional, the law is once again being challenged -but far fewer ministers and priests are defending...