Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students an even more complicated list of choices for the referendum passes. A lengthy debate begins, during which several amendments are proposed, including making the last question the first one and eliminating altogether one or more of the questions. Meanwhile, at 8:58 p.m., one representative calls for a quorum check, suspicious that more than half of the council has gone home...
...televise has been a controversial question. The Senate killed three previous attempts, in 1981, 1982 and 1984, to allow video coverage. Those opposed to cameras in the chamber feared that exposure would forever alter the leisurely, idiosyncratic, old-boy nature of the Senate, which allows unlimited debate and endless quorum calls, and that the public would not understand or approve the legislators' arcane customs. "Unlimited debate," said Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, "is not a pretty thing to watch on television . . . It is a messy, untidy spectacle to watch, but I think it is vital to the nation...
...member council operated through part of its agends without a quorum for the third time this semester. Attendance at the meeting, which began at 50 members, was down to 38, when the council allocated almost $300 to the Chicano student group, La Raza...
...constitution requires 50 percent of the council membership to be present for the student government to conduct business. As it did on the two earlier occasions when it lost its quorum, the council ignored its constitution and continued business as usual...
Dealing primarily with internal administrative matters, The Undergraduate Council last night loosened and stiffened-its attendance the requirements But with just 46 of its 85 elected members present when it passed the measure, the council barely had a quorum for the vote...