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| Authored by: old man on Saturday, March 26 2005 @ 04:14 PM CST |
Morgan:
It's an argument they continually make while the campus tories circulate their petitions to get the referendum called. You should show up for Students' Council next time the issue's up for discussion (cos if you think it ends with the referendum . . . .)
You're 90% correct, IIRC, about why the Feds are running it. It's not so much that the Feds always run referenda, but that the Board of Governors of the UW understands that the undergrads are represented by the Feds. They don't *necessarily* demand referenda to change supplementary fees, but they do demand clear evidence of student opinion, and when the issue is as controversial as this, they're not stupid enough to get caught with their collective fly down.
There would be (to my knowledge) nothing to stop WPIRG from running their own referendum, taking the results to the Feds Prez to take to UW's BOG.
That WPIRG has as yet proved unable or unwilling to pursue a mandate, to put this controversy to rest once and for all, is the main reason I'm glad there are students willing to push the Feds into hosting a referendum.
I understand they feel the petition they circulated a million years ago gives them legitimacy enough, but they're wrong.
And, as I said, I think I'd be voting to keep the PIRG on campus.
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