Word: referenda
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...dollars to fund a body elected to make such decisions for them," ignores the fact that among other things the Council was established "to represent our (the undergraduates' of Harvard-Radcliffe) views" and that the student-ratified Constitutions provides us with a most direct means for discovering those views: referenda (article III, section 5). I fear that the Crimson's argument is a two edged sword: if we attempt to learn Constitution opinion, we are levelling an "insult" as students who have paid for us to "make" decisions for them; yet, if we failed to do so, we would have...
Holding the referendum at all is an insult to the hundreds of undergraduates who paid $10 to fund a body elected to make such decisions for them. Governing by referenda is in general an unwieldy process, not only because it takes up time and money, but because it does not allow for technical debate or amendment. Open votes are justified mainly if constituents feel their government is not willing to act according to their wishes--such as the Nuclear Free Cambridge and Rent Control questions on the municipal ballot this fall. Hardly the case with the vote. If the council...
Last year the council sponsored two referenda--on a nuclear weapons freeze and on Harvard divestiture from South Africa--at the request of other student groups. Both resolutions passed with about a 40 percent response rate, according to council officers...
Every seat on the nine-member city council and seven-member school committee is being contested. Three referenda, including the Nuclear Free Cambridge question which has captured national attention, also appear on the ballot...
...referenda ballots--which will also list a question asking if the city should establish a cable television authority to bid for the Cambridge franchise, and another non-binding measure concerning housing policy--are considered a low priority and counted separately