Word: referendum
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...measure to raise the optional fee, which is automatically attached to students' term bills, was widely expected to pass in one form or another before last night's meeting. Instead, the council will refer the matter, with Seton's blessing, to the student body in the second campus-wide referendum on the issue...
...legislation before the council this Sunday will not be the first proposal to try to increase the council's term bill. Last April, the matter was voted on--by students and not just council representatives--in a campus-wide referendum...
Seton, who is sponsoring the legislation to increase the term bill, is now whistling a different tune. The council, he says, should be allowed to raise the term-bill fee without a campus-wide referendum...
...think it would be better for them to have another referendum because this is a serious change in the student government," he said. "No one votes for these [council] reps, so you should take the matter directly to the students...
...what happened between the governor's election and the defeat of the lottery referendum? "The lottery idea was very popular initially," says TIME Montgomery bureau correspondent Ralph Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they...