Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall attend . . . to present a report on the activities of the Council since the last election." This has rarely been done. Specifically in the recent Adams House meeting the Council ignored this duty. Also the Constitution states, "25 percent of the total membership of any House shall constitute a quorum for nominations . . . (and) only recognized members of a House shall be counted for a quorum." The Council rarely identifies and counts those present to ascertain whether a quorum is present--again they failed in this duty at the recent Adams House meeting. The Council is responsible for running nomination meetings...
...Sunday less than the necessary quorum was present in the dining hall, but since it was felt that those men interested would be represented, the meeting was called to order on the common parliamentary premise that if the chairman declares a quorum to exist, a quorum does exist until it is challenged by a member of the body. Four men were nominated from the floor. At this point the quorum was challenged and the meeting dissolved...
...group announced that nominations for House representative to the Student Council would now be entertained. There was a short pause, following which the committee members began to nominate each other in a desultory manner. Finally, someone in the back of the room got up to challenge the quorum...
This, apparently, was all right by the committee, for it then closed the meeting and stalked out of the dining hall. The reason became apparent the next day, when a small notice appeared outside the dining hall pointing out that due to the lack of a quorum, the committee had nominated its own slate of candidates, and that anyone else desiring to get in on the act could file a petition. By Wednesday, even this notice had disappeared, and I warrant that not more than a tenth of the Lowell House electorate is aware that new House candidates...
...meeting was adjourned wearily at 11 p.m. with 24 articles on the warrant still unvoted on. A second meeting Tuesday filed to draw a quorum: the town still has over a third of the year's business to complete. This civic apathy and the large agenda are combining to make the traditional town meeting a clumsy instrument of government for the town...