Word: motioned
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...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 15—at which the Faculty voted in support of a motion of lack of confidence in Summers—Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom said that Hopkins was “ill-suited for work in the academic profession” because she had left the speech instead of offering evidence against Summers’ arguments...
Ciarelli has filed a counter-motion to dismiss the case...
...eight professors who spoke out harshly against the president had set in motion a rocky battle for influence in the University, to be fought in the following Faculty meetings, on the pages of newspapers, and behind closed doors...
...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...
...were silent when Matory, the first professor to speak, walked up to the microphone to introduce his motion: “Twenty years. Twenty years. That is the average length of a Harvard president’s tenure. And that is why our vote today matters.” Matory spoke slowly, deliberately, and confidently...