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During a heated Undergraduate Council meeting last night, President Carey W. Gabay '94 moved to bar four of the five questions that were to have appeared on ballots during a student referendum next week...
Former council member Anjalee C. Davis '96 presented a petition signed by 1,128 students calling for a referendum on questions ranging from popular election of the president to distribution of unspent council funds to house committees...
...asking students to sign, Davis had said the council constitution permitted a referendum for any petition with the signatures of one-tenth of the student body--or 663 undergraduates...
...question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the Council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates...
...Such a referendum will be advisory unless the provisions of the referendum make its results binding. Such an order can be overturned by three-fourths of the Council...