Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tolis said the council had already dismissed two members, Sean C. Griffin '90 of Adams House, for poor attendence in order to maintain a quorum last week. Council rules require half the body--which generally consists of 88 members--to be present for business to occur...
Unable to maintain a quorum for the fourth straight week, the Undergraduate Council last night conducted its final meeting of the year with more than half its members absent, its officers acknowledging that the results were not technically binding...
Although Council Chair Guhan Subramanian '92 said during the meeting that he had expelled enough of the council's members to maintain a quorum, Vice Chair Athan G. Tolis '91 said that no one actually was expelled last night...
Tolis said that the council's business--including a vote to hold a College-wide referendum on divestment next fall--was technically invalid unless ratified by a quorum, but added that the council would proceed with the referendum and other actions anyway...
...some suspect--student directors have little power. In fact, students comprise 11 of the 23 members of the board of directors and represent two of the four stockholders of the corporation. According to the Coop's by-laws, any seven directors can call a meeting and constitute a quorum. A renegade group of seven student directors could thus shake things up quite a bit if they so chose...