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...serious possibility of a Liston presidency is precisely what makes the council fail to serve student interests. In order to avoid more of the same, the council should adopt and most significant of the campaign reforms which students supported in the May referendum: the direct election of top council executives by students...
While the turnout for the three-day May referendum did not meet the 50 percent that the council said was necessary to make the results automatically binding, 68 percent of those voting did support direct election...
...poor turnout was not helped by the fact that council members failed to table for votes during many meals. Even worse, the referendum was scheduled during the busy Reading Period due to the failure of the previous attempt at a council-run referendum in early...
Davis used the key to open the council office two weeks ago to investigate rumors that the ballots on a campus-wide referendum were not secure...
...front page of the May 13 edition, reporter Todd Braunstein writes, "But since less than half of the student body voted. the referendum will not be binding but advisory, in accordance with rules approved by the council." Justin Label '97 Chair Student Affairs Committee Undergraduate Council