In the same vote, the council chose to allow Burton, as vice president, to conduct an e-mail vote on the actual wording of the survey. The bill originally called for council Secretary Jean E. Huang '03 to administer the voting.
Earlier in the debate, former council secretary James R. Griffin '01 and Robert M. Gee '02 successfully amended the bill to eliminate a clause encouraging council members to table in dining halls for the project by reducing their absence tallies.
The amendment passed 20-16 with one abstention, over the objection of Orr, who said he saw no problem with the "carrot and stick" tactics of the council.
"I rarely do my office hours and I never table," Orr quipped.
"This is a big important project," he said, defending the original form of the bill. "Just vote for this."