Word: quorums
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...last AAA general meeting, we proposed an amendment to the AAA constitution requiring the steering committee to refer all political issues to the general membership for discussion and a formal vote. Specifically, our amendment requires every political motion to receive a two-thirds majority of a quorum of two-thirds of AAA's general membership in order to pass as an "official position" of AAA. We were reasonable enough, moreover, to include an "emergency powers" clause that grants the steering committee the discretion to issue public statements on behalf of AAA in response to news-breaking events--like Mans-field...
...four students comprising the Harvard-Radcliffe Asians for Fair Representation (HRAFR). The article states that, "HRAFR proposed AAA needs the approval from...two-thirds of all members, roughly 200 students, before they take a stance on any political issue. "The number, in fact, needed to meet the two-thirds quorum proposed by HRAFR is actually 400 (the general membership of AAA is over 600). While this would an theory be a wonderful idea, I think most students at Harvard realize that making it mandatory for 400 students to come out and unanimously approve each policy that AAA decides to pursue...
That original proposal went beyond the wording of the national party platform and thus would have required a two-thirds majority vote. But a quorum was not present to vote on Brown's motion...
...council also discussed last night the creation of a First-Year Caucus, butcould not pass a constitutional amendment to thateffect since it did not have a quorum of members...
...Sunday night, after the "no confidence"vote, the staff attempted to reprimand Schulmanbut lost a quorum. The group then passed a numberof propositions addressing minor procedural issuesand changes in the distribution of power in theReview hierarchy