Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty, however, did toss one bone to the reformers. The meeting unanimously approved a motion Paul introduced that called for an outside re-examination of the role of the Commission on Inquiry, which is supposed to act as an ombudsman for complaints brought by members of the community...
Some Faculty members were undoubtedly swayed when the motion was endorsed by James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts and present chairman of the Commission...
...Department's chairmanship away from Guinier and appoint a new man. The new chairman and his Department will have to deal with an issue only apparently resolved at the January Faculty meeting--the problem of joint concentration. By a narrow 69-66 margin the Faculty rejected Martin Kilson's motion to require students majoring in Afro-American Studies to take at least five half-courses in an outside discipline. If Kilson and his supporters are influential within the search committee, the new faculty recruited may take advantage of the Faculty Council's vagueness to require joint concentrations. Additionally...
City Manager John Corcoran said that it might be difficult to implement the Council's motion since Rent Control Board members, under the law, serve without compensation and would have to take time off from their full-time jobs...
...added, however, that if his motion were brought to a vote, he thought its chances for passage "reasonable...