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Despite the high turnout, UC representative James W. Anderson ’09 said that he was concerned that the number of students who endorsed the proposed academic calendar in the referendum was not a majority, amounting to only 43.4 percent of the entire undergraduate student body...
...take effect in the 2008-2009 academic year. The calendar change would need the approval of the University’s top governing board, the seven-member Harvard Corporation, which includes the president Corporation, which includes the president and six Fellows, who were sent a letter concerning the referendum yesterday, Petersen said...
Petersen’s letter to Bok said there was a “near-record turnout” for the calendar referendum. The total of 3,467 students voting this week is just shy of the 3,519 who participated in last semester’s UC presidential election, and 518 fewer than the record turnout in the December 2004 presidential vote...
Before the referendum began, Anderson and representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 pushed Petersen to establish a threshold at which the majority obtained in the referendum would justify concerted UC advocacy efforts. At that time, Petersen told Greenfield that a simple majority of “50% plus one” would qualify as sufficient student support...
Aside from the results, Anderson also expressed concern at the manner in which the referendum was conducted...