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...council's constitution specifies that "any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the Council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates...
Gabay has charged that the petition was "packed," since it did not allow students to choose which of the five questions they wanted on the referendum...
Ignoring the executive board's objections toher original drive, Davis said she will bedistributing the same petition, which does notallow students to pick specific questions theywould like to see on the referendum...
This view, while rhetorically snazzy, ignores the existence of a legitimate constitutional debate. To us, it is not at all clear that the proposed referendum was consistent with the dictates of the constitution, which says that "any question" can be brought to a referendum of the student body. Anjalee C. Davis' petition had five questions and only required one signature to support all of them. Nor is it clear that it would be a bad thing to require a certain number of signatures for each question. Representative governments always have to find a balance between the popular will and stability...
...took the work of former member Anjalee C. Davis '96, who is taking a semester off from the College, to give Harvard students a College-wide referendum. The council's constitution mandates the possibility of a student referendum: "Any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the Council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates...