Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four days after the term bill increase referendum failed, leaving next year's Undergraduate Council still strapped for funds, representatives argued last night over whether they should devote their limited resources to planning a blockbuster Springfest or to building a nest egg for student groups...
While Driskell scored more than twice as many votes as the second-place candidate, the referendum to raise the council's term bill--which outgoing council president Noah Z. Seton '00 had trumpeted as the cure to the council's financial woes--was ultimately rejected by a majority of voters...
Results from a referendum on the council's size, which appeared on the election ballots, showed overwhelming student support for reducing council membership to about 50 representatives from its current...
...referendum to increase the council's term-bill fee--from $20 to $50--failed by only 139 votes, despite having the support of every presidential candidate and almost the entire council. 1,583 students voted yes on the increase, while 1,434 voted...
...failure of the term-bill referendum will likely leave the council strapped for cash next year...