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...province has never shown a definitive will to secede, and has further never defined such a will. In 1980, Quebecers overwhelmingly chose to remain within Canada in a referendum on the vague concept of `sovereignty-association.' Since then, support for independence has remained low. Then, as now, it is unclear as to whether a simple 50 percent majority would suffice to grant the government enough of a mandate to negotiate separation...
Last month, Joshua D. Liston '95 was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. As we noted in a staff editorial on the elections, there were several small problems with Liston as a candidate. He was nearly impeached from his post as vice-president for administrative incompetence; a referendum he conducted was invalidated because of numerous procedural mistakes; he was temporarily removed from the council this past fall because of excessive absences. Despite all of these problems in his past, Liston won election as U.C. president with a mere 0.58 percent of the student body...
...surprisingly, the proposal for popular elections enjoys the support of a substantial portion of the student body. In a referendum last May, 68 percent of voting students supported popular election of major council executives. We urge council members to listen to their constituents and adopt a system of popular elections...
...Election Day in November 2020. Most will vote by modem, telephone or mail -- and overall citizen participation will be much greater than it is today. So will citizen interest, partly because four or five reasonably serious presidential candidates will be on the ballot, along with at least one official referendum and perhaps half a dozen national advisory referendums. Enthusiasm for the democratic process will have reached a point where even Washington should be more popular...
...means clear that student input would have been of much value anyway. The average student here has no idea what qualifications are necessary for acting as Dean, much less who might have these qualifications. I'm just happy the administration didn't ask the U.C. to run a referendum on the issue. Meredith FitzGerald...