Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Election Day, voters passed a non-binding referendum asking state legislators to move the reactor, which is located on Albany Street, to a safer area...
...staff's suggestion that a referendum to decide the fate of the Undergraduate Council's windfall is hasty and unsound. The plan risks a reckless use of the money and undermines the legitimacy of an ad hoc committee created by the council to consider various options. We fear a referendum will be biased and that a better outcome will come from more careful deliberation...
...shouldn't. We all know the council, elected by a mere handful of the student body, cannot pretend to represent accurately the sentiments and interests of the campus. For this reason, the council should administer a campus-wide referendum to gauge student opinion on the issue...
Before conducting such a referendum, the council should be actively soliciting students' ideas as to how to spend the money. The options on the referendum should then be broadly worded and limited in number, so that council members can handle the details of implementing the students' will...
...campus-wide referendum would have the dual effect of legitimizing the council and allowing it to spend the money in the way that would most benefit its constituents...