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...Sunday night the Undergraduate Council voted down a recommendation by its president Noah Z. Seton '00 to ask the Dean of the College and the Faculty for an increase in the term bill fee from $20 to $50. Last March, we encouraged students to support the council's referendum on the issue and agree to the term bill increase, conditional on the council's cutting its size. Eight months later, after poor turnout for the referendum and no sign that the council will be thinning its ranks, we cannot support Seton's recommendation. The council was right not to pass...
Student group funding should be just the sort of universally important issue around which the council can galvanize student support, so it is particularly unfortunate that there was such low turnout in last spring's referendum. The council was correct to hold off discussion of the term bill hike until a better, more publicized referendum of the students is executed--if students two years ago could get riled up over grapes, money out of their own pockets should be more than enough to motivate folks to vote. Only once the majority of students are shown to approve...
...week before Australia staged a referendum on whether to remove the Queen as their head of state (many former British colonies still recognize her as such). The proposal was rejected, but only because people were wary of the alternative offered: a president chosen not by the people but by the legislators. Polls consistently show Australians don't have much attachment to the British Crown...
...they think [a referendum] will fail?" Davis asked hypothetically. "It demonstrates a lack of faith in their own arguments...
...referendum] may give some traction to someone outside the council who could run on a platform totally opposed to the increase," Barkley said. "It would be very irresponsible, however. Anyone who's been in this body for more than a semester knows we need more money...