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...curious. After all, more than half of his fellow council members last year voted to censure Liston for failing to perform his duties as vice president, though that motion was set aside because censuring requires a supermajority of two-thirds. He was very nearly impeached. A campus-wide referendum he administered was invalidated because he botched...
...council" Liston '95, the flamboyant, self-appointed wit from Eliot House, whose name has been synonymous with council scandals. Last year, the council censured Liston for not fulfilling his duties as vice president--though that censure was later set aside on a technicality. Liston utterly botched a campus-wide referendum he was responsible for administering. And this fall, just before elections, he switched from ardently supporting a $10 term bill hike last year, to opposing...
Last spring, Liston allowed students to table in their own houses during a referendum, a direct violation of council bylaws. The referendum was therefore invalidated...
Both Schmitt and Ferrell said they favor holding a referendum on a term-bill increase to better fund student organizations. Last semester, students voted down a term-bill hike...
...many voters in the state of Washington, Thomas Foley's candidacy is not just unseemly -- it's downright disrespectful. In 1992, 60% of those voters gave a thumbs up to Initiative 573, a state referendum that imposes term limits on holders of state and federal offices. For Congressmen, the limit is three two-year terms over a 12-year period. Foley so vehemently disagrees with his constituents that he is not only seeking a 16th consecutive term in the House but has also filed a lawsuit challenging such limits on federal officeholders as unconstitutional. Thus far, the federal courts think...