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...most important of the year. At the quorum call, less than half the council's 89 members were present for the semiannual grants session, when the body is supposed to distribute $35,000 to student groups. In reaction, the executive board will now require written excuses from anyone absent from a meeting...
...ridiculous to force people to go," said representative Caley M. Castelein '93, who said he was absent from Sunday's meeting because he was working on a paper...
...Submitting written statements would be ineffective. [It] seems like a high school thing to do," said council member Andy F. Chao '92, who said he was absent for personal reasons. Chao called the proposal "a good idea in theory, worthless in practicality...
...Club member Rodney J. Taylor '91 said thathe skipped part of the grants session to attend ameeting of his club, which he said would havefined him if he had been absent...
...absence, she reasoned, meant that the city had long since become uninhabited. But Wood, an ancient-pottery expert now at the University of Toronto, argues that Kenyon's excavations were made in a poorer part of the city, where the expensive imported pottery would have been absent in any case. And he says that other pottery, dug up in Jericho in the 1930s, was common...