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...found Daniel Altman's editorial, "Put a Leash on the Council" (April 13, 1994) to be unnecessarily harsh and unforgiving towards the much-maligned council. I believe Altman has the letter of the law correct when he says that the petition has enough signatures and should be put to referendum as it is written...
Aside from the fact that the council constitution requires that 10 percent of the student body sign for each question, Davis did not allow students the choice of selecting which of the five questions they wished to see on the referendum. Rather, she manipulated student discontent on issue number one--the term bill change--to get students to sign for all, regardless of whether they wished to see all five question or only one question on the referendum. Under the council's standards, a proper referendum petition should not be packed. Students should not be forced to choose between having...
...three of the five, or any other combination of the five questions. Contrary to the analysis tendered by Jol A. Silversmith '94 in his recent letter to editors of The Crimson (April 16, 1994), we feel that if a student feels strongly that question one should be submitted to referendum, but not question two, the student will most likely sign the "Anjalee Davis-type petition" so that he or she can get question one, even though the individual may have no interest in seeing question two on the petition. This is the very definition of packing a vote. It would...
Thirdly, on the issue of representation, council representatives are elected to serve their constituents. They are delegated the job of studying issues intensively, and then coming up with informed decisions about what is in the best interest of their constituents. On the case of the term-bill referendum, council members did just that, They analyzed the empirical factors and their constituents' wishes, and then after much debate they voted. If The Crimson really feels that the council needs to be criticized, it should not be because the council acted as a representative institution and voted for an increase that after...
Consider Davis, who organized a petition drive that secured teh signed approval of ten percent of the student body to force a referendum on the fee hike...