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...vice president thankfully behind us, to say that the referenda on increased grants to student groups and block grants to house committees should have been held at the same time as the election to garner better turnout. All too easy, perhaps, but entirely appropriate. While we strongly opposed the referendum, we oppose even more strongly the actions of those four council executives who delayed the referendum in order to quash the student voice. Higher turnout would have resulted from a change in the voting date, allowing the will of the people to be better expressed...
Rescheduling notwithstanding, the council also should have publicized the referenda more. Each Undergraduate Council presidential and vice presidential candidate received money for campaign materials; surely each referendum deserved at least the same publicity...
...future, when the council takes a referendum to the people, we would like to see it well-publicized all over campus and discussed in its own debate. If not, the council can look forward to more embarrassing low turnouts, and the students can bet that they will not be offered many more popular votes. Both prospects bode poorly for any semblance of a democratic student government at Harvard...
Nearly two years after a state-wide referendum abolished rent control in Massachusetts cities, including Cambridge, the government's protective provisions have finally reached their...
...Alabama had held a referendum on segregation in the 1950s or on slavery in the 1850s, wickedness would have won each time. Krauthammer calls it "democracy" when a numerically stronger group (whites) forces the numerically weaker group (blacks) to do its will. Enlightened men call it tyranny. JONATHAN FARLEY Berkeley, California...