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...first, the council announced that it would indeed follow the mandates of its Constitution and hold a referendum if the petition gathered the requisite number of signatures...
...council voted to increase the council fee and eliminate the option of getting refund on the term bill, students, decided that enough was enough. It was time to stop the madness. Anjalee Davis '96 and many other students across the campus organized a petition drive to hold a referendum on repealing these, and other, council votes...
...after over a thousand students signed the petition (almost double the number needed for a referendum), council President Carey Gabay 94 unilaterally ruled four out of five questions "out of order." Gabay did not seem to care about what students wanted. Over a thousand students had expressed their desire for reform by signing the petition, but Gaby insisted on using tricks to prevent a vote on must of the proposals...
...Most of us were working hard on well-attended, quality events and not getting any credit for it because of the scandal [surrounding a referendum on last year's term-bill hike]," Mann added...
Proposition 187 is truly a referendum for the 1990s: if successful, the initiative will constitute a dramatic statement by voters that if the government does not move to solve the immigration problem, the people will. In a country built by immigrants, it is a measure of the deep dissatisfaction with the generosity of the welfare state that the public has seized on aliens as the enemy within. A TIME/CNN poll determined last week that 77% of those surveyed felt the government was not doing enough to keep out illegal immigrants. For years now, the battle has raged between the federal...