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Lewis announced two weeks ago that he was proceeding with a plan to ask the Faculty to raise the fee--even though a student referendum to do so failed narrowly last year...
...Barak had better watch his corner. Top names in his Labor Party are sneaking around the Knesset lining up support for taking over the party leadership before the likely May election. Barak's plan is to cut a peace deal with Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT, making the election a referendum on peace. If he doesn't do a peace deal, says former Prime Minister SHIMON PERES, Barak will surely be challenged, most likely by Knesset Speaker AVRAHAM BURG and Interior Minister HAIM RAMON...
This October, the staff took the irresponsible position of asking the Undergraduate Council to overturn last winter's referendum and request an increase of the student group term bill fee. Having once decided that students at Harvard do not know what is good for them and cannot be trusted to vote in their own interest, the staff has now taken the logical next step and called for Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 to hike the term bill fee unilaterally--and last week, he announced plans to do just that. Such a unilateral hike would be offensive and counterproductive...
Although I voted for the term bill increase, I cannot understand why a student newspaper would endorse a decision by a Harvard administrator to override the conclusion of a student referendum. There are very few aspects of Harvard life on which student opinions are sought, and even fewer on which students or their representatives may cast a vote. Why disenfranchise students further by ignoring their votes when they go the "wrong...
...particularly ironic that Lewis is taking steps to raise the term bill fee now, when the council's presidential election will take place in less than a week. It would have been a simple thing to place a term bill referendum on the ballot. When students are requested to pay more for student groups, is it so much to ask that they be consulted first...