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Starting today, that man—the Faculty Parliamentarian—is Knafel Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelly, who will begin his tenure as Parliamentarian at today’s Faculty meeting...
...Parliamentarian, a faculty member who is selected by the Faculty Council, is responsible for making sure that the monthly meetings of hundreds of professors of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are run according to standard rules. From allowing the meeting to run just five minutes over schedule to permitting professors to make motions on the floor, the Parliamentarian is consulted before Summers gives the final word...
...winter's night in Melbourne in 1967 that John Deeble, a bright young academic answering a summons, met the head of the Australian Labor Party to discuss Deeble's pet topic. In the home of a Labor parliamentarian, Deeble was calm as he spoke on the notion of a universal health insurance system with the imposing Opposition leader, Gough Whitlam. "Why should I have been nervous?" Deeble, 73, says now. "I knew more about the subject than he did." Whitlam liked what he heard and asked Deeble and colleague Dick Scotton to put something in writing. Within a year their...
Mahan’s e-mail came shortly after council parliamentarian E.E. Keenan ’07 told the council’s open list that the e-mail vote would violate the council’s bylaws and constitution...
...leader of the Free Democratic Party. "Instead of taking care of domestic security by hiring more policemen, we wasted the work of 200 civil servants to look after this reform." The issue has even divided Schröder's Social Democratic Party (spd). Dieter Wiefelspütz, an spd parliamentarian, says that despite Schröder's support, "it's just a couple of bureaucrats who demand the changes and I will not let them determine how I write the German language." While the spelling revolt played out on the front pages of the nation's newspapers last week...