Word: motioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Brown said he thought the Faculty meeting would have drawn more media attention if professors had cast ballots on a motion expressing “no confidence” in Summers’ leadership. “No vote, no story,” Brown said...
...vote would also be procedurally difficult to call because 80 percent of faculty in attendance must approve holding one—and Summers’ supporters say they will vote against such a motion...
...motion failed by just one vote, intensifying the already-contentious atmosphere. For a bill to be considered, two-thirds of the UC must vote...
...protected by life tenure and the prestige of an elite university, they are occasionally called to act at great risk to their sense of comfort. And rarely have they shown more courage, more disregard for personal convenience in the face of mortal danger, than in proposing a no-confidence motion in University President Lawrence H. Summers, to be voted on in an emergency meeting next week...
...safe, easy topics, the Faculty might find time to discuss these issues at next week’s emergency meeting. But what requires bravery, real bravery, is to place anonymous quotations in student newspapers, to focus attention on illusory repression, and to shortcut discussion by calling for a motion of no confidence...