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Anjalee C. Davis '96, who took a leave of absence spring semester but nevertheless helped administer the council's second referendum, might also be a major player this fall if she returns to the council...
After last semester's Undergraduate Council hijinks--an illegally taped phone conversation, an invalidated referendum, a final meeting marked by five resignations--some people might think it's time for a change...
What had many talking last spring was Liston himself. After an April referendum on a proposed term-bill fee hike, Liston admitted to violating council bylaws by directing members to table in their own houses. Liston later said he made an honest mistake...
...Referendum Issues...
...election was in large measure a referendum on the P.R.I.'s new claims to political trustworthiness and the economic policies put in place by outgoing President Carlos Salinas de Gortari -- most notably the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which went into effect Jan. 1. Many experts had been predicting that Zedillo, the unassuming technocrat plucked from obscurity after the party's first choice was assassinated in March, would win with less than half the votes and that the restive electorate would send large numbers of opposition members to Congress. The voters disproved those forecasts and gave the P.R.I. sizable...