Students overwhelmingly rejected the Undergraduate Council's $10 term bill hike, its current election system, and its method of selecting leaders in a student referendum completed yesterday.
But since less than half the student body voted, the referendum will not be binding but advisory, in according with rules approved by the council.
In other council news, the executive board announced that it has received a petition, signed by the requisite ten members, calling for the expulsion of Hassen A. Sayeed '96.
Sayeed, who chairs the student affairs committee, has been charged with illegally tape-recording a telephone conversation between Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95 and himself without the former's knowledge.
All Questions Pass
All five questions on the referendum, held over the past four days in dining halls, passed by at least 18 percentage points.
President Carey W. Gabay '94 said that, in light of the results, he personally would vote to rescind the fee hike.
The ballot-counting was completed late last night in the council office.
"It's fantastic," said Anjalee C. Davis '96, the former council member who organized the petition drive to force a vote on the five referendum points. "It's a landslide, every single one."
Liston, however, pointed out that voter participation was 21 or 22 percent on every question.
"I think this shows that 80 percent of the student body is apathetic" about the changes, Liston said.
A full 60 percent of those casting ballots voted to rescind the council's $10 fee hike, which was passed in March. Just 40 percent wanted to uphold the council decision.
The most overwhelming vote was cast in favor of the option students have to check a box on term bills to waive the council fee.
The council decided last year to eliminate that option. But 75 percent of voting students wanted tokeep the option, while just 25 percent elected touphold the council's decision. A question that would add a round of councilelections before second semester was approved59-41. Read more in News