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...legislation before the council this Sunday will not be the first proposal to try to increase the council's term bill. Last April, the matter was voted on--by students and not just council representatives--in a campus-wide referendum...
Seton, who is sponsoring the legislation to increase the term bill, is now whistling a different tune. The council, he says, should be allowed to raise the term-bill fee without a campus-wide referendum...
...think it would be better for them to have another referendum because this is a serious change in the student government," he said. "No one votes for these [council] reps, so you should take the matter directly to the students...
...platform focused almost entirely on his pledge to bring state-sponsored gambling (and the resultant cash) to Alabama. Siegelman, who was understandably nonplussed by Tuesday?s defeat, had planned to use the profits from the lottery to bulk up the state's school budget. The voters? rejection of the referendum paints Alabama?s much-maligned education system into a tight corner: They?ve got dwindling funds and almost no hope of an infusion - Siegelman?s other key campaign promise was not to raise taxes...
...what happened between the governor's election and the defeat of the lottery referendum? "The lottery idea was very popular initially," says TIME Montgomery bureau correspondent Ralph Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they...