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...former Director of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard and in other capacities, I have extensive experience in dealing with college administrators and administrative procedures; I do not at this time endorse or oppose any of the five questions that the petition would put to a campus-wide referendum...
Under the terms of the council constitution, "[a]ny question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." More than 1,100 signatures were submitted to the council, indicating that "[w]e, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum." The council does have a legitimate interest in assuring that the signatures submitted on such a petition are valid...
Further, Gabay argues in the Crimson article (April 14,1994) that many students signed the petition only to endorse a referendum on the first question, on reversing the council's recent decision to raise term-bill fees by $10. But if the executive board of the council seriously held that opinion, it should have recommended that the council invalidate the entire petition, or that it contact all of the students who signed the petition to confirm the validity of their signatures...
...referendum would not only be healthy and useful but, at this point, necessary. Maybe we have taken too many courses in liberal political philosophy, but we sincerely believe that the duty of student representatives is to represent the interests of students. Yet, it has become clear that the interests of students do not predominate at the proceedings of the council...
...after the work of outsider Davis, students should be given the opportunity to decide these issues for themselves. The five questions on Davis's referendum include the three financial measures mentioned above, as well as whether council elections will be held both semesters instead of once a year and whether council executives should be elected to their positions directly by students...