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Last year, while he was president, Anjalee C.Davis '96-'97 amassed 2,000 signatures in anattempt to force the council to hold a Collegewide referendum on five financial and structuralreform issues, including the popular election ofall four Council executives...
...part of the rules for the referendum, theCouncil stipulated that 50 percent of the studentbody must participate in order to make the vote ofthe students binding on the council...
Hopefully, neither of these arguments will persuade more than a quarter of the council. But, unfortunately, they might. If popular elections fail tomorrow night, then students will have the opportunity to amend the constitution via a referendum next week. Yet, if the council fails to approve popular elections tomorrow night and if students do not successfully amend our rules, I will sadly announce my resignation as president. I do not want to pretend that I, or the council that I lead, have some sort of mandate to do anything anymore...
Fried wrote the introduction to a brief supporting the state's position. In that introduction, he ridiculed the plaintiffs' argument that a referendum to kill rent control would violate local autonomy...
...agreed with the attorney general and us in a unanimous opinion," Fried said yesterday. "There was a unanimous opinion saying there was no constitutional problem about the referendum...