Word: dockets
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...faculty members poured into the lecture hall, overflowing the room’s 350 seats, Summers met with members of his staff and the docket committee in the basement and took a moment by himself in an empty classroom...
...stipulate that 80 percent of professors must approve calling a vote not placed on the agenda beforehand—Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 said after the meeting that he would put such a vote on the docket for the next meeting of the full Faculty in March...
...meantime, Matory had placed his motion on the docket, calling for an explicit up-or-down vote on Summers’ leadership. Most professors at the time believed it would not pass...
Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a member of the docket committee, announced the results of the vote about half an hour later. Defying everyone’s—including Matory’s—expectations, the no confidence motion passed, 218 to 185 with 18 abstentions...
...would have thought the Faculty meeting would be a forum for discussion before the move is a fait accompli, but with the planning for the move already on the docket, it seems as if it is a fait accompli,” Burgard told The Crimson after the meeting...