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...over and over again: The governance of this College is broken. If we needed any further proof, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) provided it last Tuesday when it failed to achieve quorum at its most recent meeting. Over the past four years, votes at a third of FAS??s meetings have been meaningless because our rotating deans could not gather a sixth of the Faculty’s 700-or-so members—the minimum threshold for votes to become University...
...enough probability that showing up would matter in terms of reaching the required threshold,” said Economics professor Attila Ambrus, “then you would probably expect less people.” But Ambrus’ thinking had a qualifier—not every one of FAS?? approximately 700 voting members thinks like a character in an economics textbook. “I guess the question is how strategically the members of the Faculty will act,” he said. “Most of the people who usually show up at these meetings...
...group was assembled after 88 percent of Harvard undergraduates and 93 percent of graduate students voted to reduce FAS??s greenhouse gas emissions in an online referendum last fall...
...Since its establishment in 1992 by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, the EPC—which was never ratified by the Faculty—has drawn criticism for the power that it commands despite its murky status relative to the rest of the FAS??s governance structures...
...Because of the architect’s imaginative thinking, the cost was up,” said Knowles, who was involved in the nascent stages of FAS?? $740 building boom that included LISE. “But the only way we can go forward in science is to establish these facilities centrally...