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...refused a position on the reevaluation committee, is well-known for her antagonistic relationship toward the council. Nonetheless, Davis played by the rules and easily gathered more than 1,100 signatures for a petition which would require five questions to be brought before the students in a binding referendum on April...
...Davis was quickly ruled out of order. Gabay decreed that only one of the five questions would be brought before the students and, furthermore, that one question would be the recent term-bill fee hike. Gabay also remarked that he was being "nice enough" to even allow the referendum on that one issue...
...interpretation for Gabay and his fellow executives who wish to maintain the status quo uncontested, such an "interpretation" denies a simple fact. Every student who signed Davis's petition signed a petition which called for five questions: "We, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum...
...each of the 1,128 signatures pertained to the petition calling for all five questions, well over one-tenth of undergraduates have demanded that five questions be brought before the entire College in a binding referendum. Thus, the question of "interpretation" quickly evaporates--unless, of course, one has a vested interest in distorting the expressed will of undergraduates...
With these questions, we applaud the likely intervention of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Yesterday, Epps expressed his support for the undivided referendum: "If the U.C. fails to present these issues on their referendum ballot, I will convene a meeting of the Committee on College Life to discuss this failure next week....The results of that meeting would probably be that the College itself would put forth these issues for a student vote, which would then be binding for the Undergraduate council." Epps should immediately instruct the council to follow it is own rules, bringing all five questions...