Word: referendum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole refused to specify what would be done with the new revenue (other than to reduce the percentage of total council funds going to grants); and the council refused to put the final authority for any increase in the hands of the students body through a campus-wide referendum...
...bill imbroglio points to a fundamental failure of representation on the Undergraduate Council. In regard to both the term bill increase and calendar reform, former council Chair Michael P. Beys has observed that the council is a representative body and hence has no need to refer anything to student referendum...
...increase. It has failed, by definition, when 75 percent of the council votes in favor of a measure which a majority of the student body does not support. Given this disparity, the council has forfeited any claims it might have had to "representation" as a defense against a student referendum...
Davis' possible referendum could rescind the council's proposal...
...petition also calls for a referendum on thecouncil's March 13 decision to keep all moneyremaining unspent at the end of each academic yeasas roll-over funds...