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Former council member Anjalee C. Davis '96, wholaunched the referendum procedure with acampuswide signature campaign, said the councilhad no right to rule the results merely advisory...
Because the questions on last week's referendumarose through a student petition, Davis said, itwas a student referendum rather than a councilreferendum...
...Committee on College Life had recommendedthat the council's referendum needed 50 percentturnout to be valid, and the council voted toapprove that recommendation. But Davis said thatrequirement does not apply to a studentreferendum...
Davis said that according to the constitution,an explicit three-quarters' vote on the referendumitself was needed to make the referendum advisory...
According to the council constitution, abinding student referendum can only be directlyoverturned by a three-quarters majority councilvote...