Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen its peer since the Rolling Stones cancelled their Boston concerts. A Student Assembly member called the ivy "one of the graver issues of our time" and tried to establish and ad hoc preservation committee. (He failed when someone noticed that the assembly did not have a quorum that night...
Still, Marquand notes, an alternative to cancelling meetings wholesale does exist. Back in the mid-1970s, when the Faculty had "a little bit of a problem" getting its quorum of one-sixth to show up, "there was a feeling that there was so little to do that it would be nice if the Faculty could get together to have tea." And so, each month that meetings were scrapped, assorted professors congregated and sipped tea. With this year's ho-hum agenda, and with a pervasive feeling that the full Faculty shouldn't take on an issue until everyone else...
...Mormon history the year 1844 is decisive killed in Illinois, and his disciples were plunged into turmoil. After months of arguing, Brigham Young convinced a majority of the flock it was Smith's will to give control to an inner council called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. As its head, Young succeeded Smith as Prophet. Ever since, the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has passed to the senior Quorum member...
Although they could not muster a quorum, Student Assembly members last Sunday met as a committee to lend their qualified support to the changes in College governance proposed in the recently-released Dowling Committee report. Assembly members also called for the abolition of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--a topic that the Dowling Committee touched upon without making any recommendations. The assembly members agreed to "recognize the effort and compromises that have gone into the report" and to support the proposed changes "as an improvement of the present system...
...deny the reconsideration meeting a quorum, 41 members would have to boycott the session. A second memo was posted yesterday, urging all editors to attend Wednesday's meeting...