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...constitution is elegant in its simplicity: "Any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." Upon receiving the petition, however, Gabay decided that this simple clause actually implies all manner of complex restrictions on our right of referendum. But 1,100 students signed the petition in good faith. Gabay's objection implies that more than 440 signatories would, if we called them, say, "No, I did not know there were five questions on the referendum, and I don't think students should be able...
Under the terms of the council constitution, "[a]ny question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." More than 1,100 signatures were submitted to the council, indicating that "[w]e, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum." The council does have a legitimate interest in assuring that the signatures submitted on such a petition are valid...
...taking a semester off from the College, to give Harvard students a College-wide referendum. The council's constitution mandates the possibility of a student referendum: "Any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the Council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates...
Mumbling something about an alternative interpretation of the constitution, Gabay decided that every question brought before the council must have its own list of signatures from one-tenth of undergraduates. This decision was later supported by a five to one vote of council executives and will most likely be upheld by a simple majority of the full council in a vote this Sunday...
...each of the 1,128 signatures pertained to the petition calling for all five questions, well over one-tenth of undergraduates have demanded that five questions be brought before the entire College in a binding referendum. Thus, the question of "interpretation" quickly evaporates--unless, of course, one has a vested interest in distorting the expressed will of undergraduates...