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Harvard students and faculty campaigned strongly on the referendum, which "instructs" Cambridge's representative to vote for a resolution supporting these policies...
...vote on the referendum sends a "message to our elected officials that their policies are really not in line with what the voters believe in," said Kathryn Silver, coordinator of the Coalition for Palestinian Rights, the group that sponsored Question 5's appearance on the ballot. Congress' funds belong to the taxpayers, Silver said, and actions against Palestinians are "an improper use of those funds...
Judith L. Ryan, head of the ComparativeLiterature Department and a member of the EnglishDepartment's outside advisory committee, saidyesterday that while she had not yet heard of thedepartment's vote on Boone, it made sense for thefaculty to compare "Joe Boone with anybody else inhis field...
Orren said the poll was not meant to predictthe vote on the referendum, but "to tap theunderlying sentiment" of the voters. He said itwas "fairer to the public" to use the adjective,"union" instead of "prevailing," because it is"clearer to the people what `union wage' means."The polling question defined what is usuallycalled the prevailing wage but did not use theterm, Orren said...
...vote to keep the prevailing wage law, youvote no on the referendum, and to repeal it, youvote yes, Lemieux said. "It's complex over thetelephone. It has to be simplified." According toLemieux, since the prevailing wage, which involvesboth union and non-union workers, is tied to theunion wage, "it is not unreasonable to assume"that the one affects the other...