"Former vice-chairman of the council Amy B.Zegart '89 said "the referendum will take too muchtime and won't have any tangible effects."

"Sending this decision back to the studentsundermines the representative nature of this body.We're here to make decisions," concurred Bramsom.

After this ammendment was over-whelminglydefeated the meeting lost its center.

Amid desk banging, shouting, and movement inthe assembly, Deena R. Bernstein '88 offered anammendement which would call for a "bindingreferendum" on a house-by-house basis.

After twenty minutes of debate on thisammendment, Mandery asked this ammendment, Manderyasked Bernstein to write a text of the ammendmentjust before shouting from the gallery as membersfelt the written text was different from theammendment they had debated.

In a council vote, which quickly degeneratedinto a shouting match, the ammendment wasoverwhelmaingly defeated.

Gregory R. Schwartz '89 offered the finalammendement to send the letter in the "spirit ofcompromise."

Schwartz asked to insert the measure callingfor House Committee meetings and an open forum offreshman, which will be widely publicized todiscuss the issue of condom distribution