Word: parliamentarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Undergraduates overwhelmingly rejected all five council-supported positions in this second referendum. But since less than a quarter of the students voted ,the council overruled its parliamentarian's decision that the referendum be binding...
...recall effort failed, but the council did censure the vice president--an action that was later invalidated by the council parliamentarian for failure to follow proper procedure...
Next, we move on to the saga of Vice president Joshua "Lieutenant Colonel" D. Liston '95, the current corruption king of the Council. Liston's censure was withdrawn when the Council (with barely 55 percent of its seats voting), agreed with Parliamentarian David A. Smith '94 that the procedure had been invalid. We must ask why on earth Smith waited until after the vote to decide whether it was meaningless...
...council voted last night to overturn the decision of council Parliamentarian David A. Smith '94, who had ruled the student vote binding...
Davis also said the vote to make the referendumadvisory is unconstitutional because the councilvoted only to overturn the parliamentarian'sdecision, which requires just a simple majority...