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...Undergraduate Council voted last night to exclude official position papers for and against an increase in the Student Activities Fee from the online referendum ballot...
...addition to excluding position papers, the council also approved an amendment that binds the council not to ask the College for an increase more than equal to inflation if the referendum fails...
...think its very important for the council to stand behind its referendum,” said Joshua A. Barro ’05, who authored the amendment...
Courageous visionary or cornered opportunist? Confident democrat or hypocritical gambler? Tony Blair may qualify for all these titles thanks to his abrupt, massive and raggedly executed U-turn last week. After months of deriding a referendum on the proposed European Union constitution as a "gross and irresponsible betrayal of the true British national interest," he endorsed the idea after all. The normally dour Conservative leader, Michael Howard, was gleeful as he mocked Blair's pirouette during a House of Commons debate. "Six months ago, the Prime Minister stood before his party conference and said, with all the lip-quivering intensity...
...station on the slippery slope to a European superstate, and the downside of rejecting it as minor. "If this constitution does not proceed as a consequence of a no vote in this country, Britain would remain a full participating member of the European Union," Howard insisted. Any referendum is still a long way off - no earlier than fall 2005 - and some Labour M.P.s are hoping Blair will use that time to slip out of the trap. First, E.U. governments must settle the text of a constitution (which appears likely in June, but may founder); then Parliament will debate it, which...