Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council could not maintain a quorum at last Sunday's meeting, one which many consider to be the most important of the year. At the quorum call, less than half the council's 89 members were present for the semiannual grants session, when the body is supposed to distribute $35,000 to student groups. In reaction, the executive board will now require written excuses from anyone absent from a meeting...
...wake of Sunday's Undergraduate Council meeting--which ended prematurely because council members could not maintain a quorum--the council's executive board has passed a resolution calling on representatives to submit written explanations of their absences...
Subramanian ended Sunday's semiannual grants meeting early after the dwindling number of members present prompted finance committee members to request a roll call. The roll call showed that only 41 of the council's 87 members were present, three short of a quorum...
...meeting was adjourned prematurely Sunday night because the council lacked the quorum of 44 members needed to proceed with voting, and will be reconvened on Friday night in order to complete appropriations, according to executive board members...
...grants meeting has always been a poorly attended meeting," he said early in the session-when the council barely had a quorum. "According to utilitarian doctrine, you're probably doing well to skip this...