Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a campus-wide referendum in 1985 showing that 75 percent of students prefer knowing their lottery numbers before submitting house choice has led to a change in policy since that time...
SOMEONE reading Joseph Palmore's editorial "Vote for a Strong Council" would get the impression that there is no good reason to vote against the current referendum on the election of the Undergraduate Council chair. Worse still, one might think that the opponents of the referendum are motivated by a perverse desire for a weak, undemocratic student government...
...this week, students have the chance to energize the council and shape its future agenda. By voting "yes" this week on a referendum to have the entire student-body elect the council's chair, you can make the council more accountable to student opinion...
...December, the council nixed a constitutional amendment that would have created the popularly-elected office of a president. Although the majority of council members opposed the proposed change--fearing that a president elected by the entire campus would encroach on their power--the council wisely voted to hold the referendum this week on the issue...
...referendum passes this week, the Undergraduate Council can truly become the voice of student opinion. A "Yes" vote is a demand that the word "student" be put back into student government. At stake in the balloting is the direction of the council itself. Will it increasingly use its nascent political voice to represent student opinion or will it backslide into a stagnant pool of chocolate milk and malaise...