Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crack down on council absenteeism. On several occasions last year, the council barely mustered a quorum. The council already has a rule which dismisses members who miss too many meetings. Enforce that rule strictly. Representatives who don't go to meetings don't represent anyone...
...Interpretation: What he said in public: "We don't have a quorum. This meeting is adjourned."--Undergraduate Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 after a mob of protesters disrupted a council meeting...
What he said in private: "We can say we don't have a quorum and then we're okay."--Lee, before the public adjournment as he justified his actions to fellow council members, according to a Crimson tape...
...official quorum count was taken. Lee later explained that the adjournment was not based on the lack of a quorum, but rather on his decision not to chair the meeting any further...
...Advocate postponed voting on the initial proposal for the reading because a quorum of members were not present at the time. It was this logistical impediment, rather than the ideological conservatism which Mr. Lockwood's article suggests, that caused us to reschedule voting...