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...habits die hard. Not enough professors turned out to yesterday’s meeting to take a binding vote on the new measure, which would have lowered the quorum—the number of attendees required for an official Faculty vote—from one sixth of the professoriate??s approximately 700 members to one eighth. The development was perhaps a first in the nearly two-century history of the Faculty: a failure to achieve quorum in a vote on quorum. Chair of the Economics Department James H. Stock presented yesterday’s legislation, which, in addition...
...member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is well-versed in the science of human behavior. But with the full Faculty set to discuss today the possibility of lowering the attendance required for an official vote at its general meetings, many of the professoriate??s own public policy and behavioral experts appeared torn about the effect that the proposal’s adoption might have. “If...Faculty members would only show up if there’s a high enough probability that showing up would matter in terms of reaching...
...life that the Faculty should be privileging over petty pseudo-academic word-brawls. Henry A. Kissinger ’50 once remarked that “academic fights are more brutal than…fights in the real world because the stakes are so low.” The professoriate??s behavior this month has borne his conclusion out in spades. We suggest that the Faculty’s skills might be better employed in actually making material differences in Harvard’s academic life...
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