Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...councillors advised that R.I.P. be engraved over the various experiments in student government, that the Harvard student body decided to do without formally what for years it had done without in practice. But a majority on the HCUA felt that one last try was in order, and the referendum then presented to the students listed only two choices: retention of the HCUA or acceptance of a new bipartite government, made up of a Harvard Policy Committee and a Harvard Undergraduate Council. The crucial decision--whether or not any sort of student government should exist here--was delayed until this term...
Last February when the present system was set up, the constitution stipulated that a referendum was to be held within a year...
...have an opinion, splits roughly in half over the war. But when Vietniks there tried to get the student body to protest the war and back an intelligence-insulting petition accusing the U.S. of "tacit or active collaboration in the use of torture and other war crimes," a student referendum rejected the proposal...
...study committee will be established by the executive committee of RGA. Its recommendations will be presented to the RGA legislature, which meets next on November 18. Only if the committee report were challenged would the issue go to a Radcliffe referendum. Otherwise, any revision of the rules would pass by a vote of the RGA legislature...
...sparse lunch at home with his wife, and spends as much time as possible inside guarded gates of No. 8's jacaranda-lined grounds. No major legislation has emerged from his tour as Prime Minister, but to promote independence he has flown to London twice, held a national referendum, an indaba (meeting) of African chiefs (all government-paid) and a full-scale parliamentary election (in which the Front won all 50 white seats but did not even contest the 15 black ones...