Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vice President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 wants to change that reasonable range to "at least 65 percent" with her referendum. While the percentage may be small, it will nonetheless cut deeply into other committee funds...
...referendum, if passed, would force even more drastic limits on the committee fund than now exist. It would limit the ability of the council to plan a large spring time event, not to mention smaller events and services, before the First-Year formal revenues are collected. By restricting innovation in project ideas, the resolution would also restrict the effectiveness of council representatives to provide their constituents with the activities they desire...
Student groups are an essential part of life on campus (the recent council budgets demonstrate a recognition of this). A vote against the referendum isn't a denial of this fact--it is, however, a recognition that stripping the committee fund is not the best way to raise money for student groups...
Students must understand the details of this complex issue before they decide where they feel their dollars will meet their needs. This referendum comes to the campus without significant council support for good reason. It is an issue that has been debated over e-mail and on the council floor for years, and should remain an important debate each year, with each new council and each new student body...
...council has the unique opportunity to make itself more cohesive. The grants process, though an incredibly important part of the function of the council, is not all the council can do to improve student life. I encourage all students to become more aware of the details of the referendum and to vote down a referendum that hastily ties the hands of student representatives...