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...past four years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considered lowering its standards for attendance yesterday. Too bad old 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...
...department Web site using the title “Department of English.” English professor Helen Vendler was less than enthused about the revision, calling it a “routine change.” The Faculty also agreed to discuss a proposed lowering of the quorum??the threshold needed to pass motions—from one-sixth to one-eighth, at its meeting next Tuesday. The quorum proposal has been pending since it passed the Faculty Council nearly a month ago. When the Council decided to send the quorum issue before the full Faculty, anthropology...
...introduced to the Faculty in February—stresses connections between academic study and the real world. Yesterday’s meeting was marked by awkward legislative maneuvers and aborted motions, as professors struggled to draw the long-running curriculum debate to a close. The lack of a quorum??which is defined as one-sixth of the voting Faculty members—at yesterday’s meeting left at least one professor wondering about the aims of yesterday’s discussion. “Sometimes composers write music with an instrument in mind...
...debate over parliamentary procedure, the Faculty voted 59-53 to postpone a vote on the measure for a future meeting.Even if a vote had been taken yesterday, however, it would not have been binding. Near the meeting’s outset University President Lawrence H. Summers asked whether a quorum??one-sixth of the Faculty’s 703 voting members—was present. Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian replied that attendance was seven short.Wrapping up discussion of evaluations, Gross said that the matter could wait until next fall because the current round...
That bill passed in the third hour of last night’s marathon meeting, when only 29 members—three members more than quorum??were present to vote...