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...Undergraduate Council's executive board voted yesterday morning to hold a referendum on financial reforms at the same time as the campus-wide elections for president and vice president...
MINSK, Belarus: After declaring a landslide victory in Sunday's referendum that would expand his powers, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko found the results of the voting attacked by parliament. So today, Lukashenko convinced 111 members to leave their colleagues behind and convene in another building across town. That left 60 or 70 of his opponents behind in the original parliament, fuming and planning. Vice speaker Gennady Karpenko said the anti-Lukashenko deputies would not recognize the results, which were 70.5 percent in favor of the referendum. He said there was evidence of vote fraud that "constitutes a clear and glaring...
Rawlins says the referendum would prevent what she calls attempts by council representatives to "[ignore] the opinion of the student body...
...been fighting for more money to go to student groups and for more money to go to house committees for a long time. But I've faced incredible resistance within the [council]," says Rawlins, currently the council's vice president. "With this referendum, I want to give students the right to decide how their money is being spent...
...petition is signed by 10 percent of the student body, a campus-wide referendum will be held within three weeks, perhaps during the presidential election itself...