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Last April, Madgaret Theeman, a second-year graduate student in Social Relations, was elected to the Council. At the Council's May meeting she suggested that a slot in the budget for the Fall, '67 semester, which was being discussed, be set aside for "social action." She was hissed...
THIS October, Miss Theeman nevertheless secured permission from the Council to chair a four-man "social action committee." For three months the committee made little headway in the various projects and ideas it submitted to the Council, but last month Miss Theeman presented several well-prepared resolutions, including one that called for a referendum on Vietnam...
...motion was amended to allow only dues-paying GSA members the right to vote. (Of approximately 4500 graduate students, only 1500 pay GSA dues.) The Council also retained the opinion poll, which will be offered to all graduate students. Finally, the Theeman forces were unable to moderate the wording of the referendum, which called for "immediate withdrawal." Council member Roger Rifer, a close associate of Parker's, had originally proposed "unilateral withdrawal" for the referendum, and the activist group was forced to compromise on the severe "immediate withdrawal" wording...
Feintuch and Miss Theeman assert that the poll is a sop to the other graduate students. "The leadership of the GSA has provided 7-10 answers for each question so that it's impossible to get a majority on any one question," Miss Theeman says...
Michael Schwartz, a supporter of Miss Theeman and an anti-war activist, had worked on the social action committee and on Feintuch's biweekly newspaper, the Graduate Bulletin. But he was not yet a Council member. Last month, then-president Budelis promised that Schwartz would be appointed to fill the next vacancy on the Council. By early February, however, the referendum controversy was steaming. In a surprise reversal in-coming president Munyon chose Jon L. White, Budelis's roommate, not only to take Schwartz's place on the Council, but to immediately assume the job of secretary...