Had the questions gone the way the councilwanted them to, Liston said, "there would havebeen no need to pass" the vote to overturn theparliamentarian's decision tonight.

Council member Michael P. Beys '94 made themotion to table the referendum issue.

"I don't think twenty-one percent of thestudent body should be able to bind an institutionthat takes its authority from more than twenty-onepercent of the students," Beys said.

The final relegation of the referendum to"advisory" status comes after months of delays anddispute over the vote.

The original version of last week's referendumwas proposed at a May 2 Undergraduate Councilmeeting after an earlier, council-administeredreferendum was invalidated because of impropervoting procedures.

That council-generated referendum contained twoquestions, one on the term-bill hike and one onthe fee waiver on the term bill.

On May 4, however, the council executive boardaccepted the petition from Davis, who is on leavethis semester. Davis' May 4 petition rephrased thecouncil's two questions and added three others tothe referendum