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Meanwhile, Rollert is one of Seton's closest confidants. When Seton agreed that a campus-wide referendum was the best way to decide on a term bill increase, reversing his own position, he credited a conversation with Rollert as partly responsible for his change of mind...
Elections will take place from Monday, Dec. 13 to Wednesday, Dec. 15 and will be coupled with a controversial referendum on an increase in the council's term bill fee from...
Council members say they expect the term bill fee to be a hot button issue in this year's campaign. Council President Noah Z. Seton '00 was initially reluctant to package the referendum with the election for fear that it would "politicize" the race, but he switched camps at last week's meeting...
...initial feeling was that [the referendum] didn't need to get wrapped up in politics of the election," Seton told The Crimson, "but now I recognize that this election is going to be very much about the council in general rather than simply the candidates who are running...
Argue for or against the term-bill increase to your heart's content. Argue that only downsizing the council will allow the council to obtain the representativeness that it needs. Ask a representative to propose that the question of council downsizing be administered by referendum at the same time as that of the term-bill increase. Argue about whether increased funding should go towards student groups or towards large campus-wide events. But don't use baseless assertions about the success of the council's events and the council's competence without supporting your statements in some meaningful...