The referendum asking the University to ban the sale and distribution of plastic water-bottles and make tap water more accessible, sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee, saw the most opposition, with only 64 percent of voters supporting the measure.
Environmental Action Committee Treasurer Alex G. Krolewski ’15 said in an interview after the release of the election results that he was happy that the referendum had passed and looks forward to the next stage of the movement.
“By the time we were doing the campaign, I wouldn’t say that we were expecting success, but given that the people we talked to seemed pretty receptive, we thought our chances were pretty good,” Krolewski said.
Although all four referendum questions garnered a majority percentage of support, the issues are non-binding on the UC because the majority of the student body did not vote.
—Joanna R. Schacter, Tyler S. Olkowski, and Meg P. Bernhard contributed to the reporting of this story.
—Staff writer Steven S. Lee can reached at steven.lee@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @StevenSJLee.
This article has been revised to reflect the following clarification:
CLARIFICATION: Nov. 21, 2013
Due to an editing error, an earlier version of the headline of this article and a breaking news bar circulating the article stated that Clark and Mayopoulos resigned immediately after winning the UC election. To clarify, they said they will resign.