Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, H. Reed Ellis '65, chairman of the HCUA, will meet with the two factions which opposed the HCUA division defeated in last Thursday's referendum and will attempt to hammer out a compromise constitution...
...more influential, but probably more easily appeased of the dissident groups will be the freshmen, who want greater representation in any undergraduate government scheme. It was essentially the overwhelming 431-90 freshman vote against the referendum that killed...
...more ideologically challenging of the factions wants a stronger student government at Harvard and seeks a college-wide constitutional convention on the subject. Their position is somewhat weakened, however, by the fact that upperclassmen voted 906-692 in favor of the referendum and that the freshmen seemed to have no quarrel with the division idea...
...results of the meeting of the factions will have to be digested by the Constitutional Revision Committee. A new constitution will then be submitted to the Council, and another referendum taken...
...Reed Ellis '65, chairman of the HCUA, expressed disappointment at the result of the referendum. He attributed the defeat of the proposed constitution to "the vote of freshmen who acted on grievances which they did not bring to our attention until the day before the ballot...