In addition, Mather House delegate Michael P.Beys '94 was accused by Dawn Austin '92-'95 ofharassing and intimidating potential voters whiletabling there (please see photograph, thispage).

"When I began to vote, I circled 'no', and Mikewas watching me," said Austin, adding that she hadasked Beys about the rate increase. "And he said,`Obviously this was a waste of my breath.' I Toldhim that I wanted to give him an opportunity tosay something and explain the council's rationale,and I told him that an informed vote is the bestvote."

Beys said Austin was "making a point by voting'no' right in front of me...after I had spent alot of time and answered her question."

But the charges against Beys were not thecouncil's only problem. Some council that ballotscollected from Wednesday's voting were leftunsecured.

Liston said the council had originally made noplans to secure the ballots, but placed them in alocked box as of Thursday.

Term Bill Hike Debate

The revelations about the potential formultiple balloting ended a difficult week for theembattled council.

This and the other allegations have divertedattention from the issue at stake--whether thecouncil should be allowed to raise its term billfee from $20 to $30.

The council began the week dealing with adifferent set of charges. Former council memberAnjalee C. Davis '96, who organized the drive forballot, charged that the council had mishandledher petition.

Davis' petition called for a council referendumon five issues: the hike; the check box option onundergraduate term bills that allows students toforego the council's fee; the distribution ofunspent council funds to the house committees;popular election of council executives; andsemiannual general elections.

Davis submitted her petition to the fullcouncil on April 10.

But Gabay charged that Davis' petition hadmanipulated student discontent on the term billfee hike in order to get all five issues on thereferendum.

Since the petition "gave no student the rightto decide which of the five they wanted, it wasbasically packed," Gabay said last week.

Agreeing in principle with Gabay's argument,the council executive board voted 5-1 on April 13to submit a referendum including nothing but avote on the term bill fee hike.

And as specified in Davis' petition, theexecutive board agreed that the results of thereferendum would be binding on the council. Thatmeans that a three-fourths vote of the councilcould overturn the will of the students.