Word: quorums
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When parliament is in session, it struggles to find a quorum for deliberations. Repeated attempts by TIME to get attendance figures from the office of the Speaker have been rebuffed with the claim that such data is too "politically sensitive" to be published. But Iraqis don't need statistics: they can tell from the wide swaths of empty seats clearly visible in the live broadcasts on state...
...Faculty must rise to the occasion. It must show as much enthusiasm in offering new courses as it did when over 400 faculty members showed up to attend a vote of no confidence in Summers. The lack of enthusiasm evidenced by Curricular Review votes that barely reached a Faculty quorum, and professors’ certitude and inability to cooperate, must give way to a newly concerted communal effort. That did not happen in the past four years, but it needs to start happening if the new curriculum is to work for professors—and most importantly, for students...
...meeting in May 2006, professors failed to reach a quorum for a binding vote on the same matter even as some of them blasted the proposal for infringing on “professorial autonomy...
...Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, expressed her support for the new outreach legislation on the UC floor, saying that it would make elections more competitive and draw more voters. “We’ve seen a lot of underserved races where you are barely making quorum for filling the seats,” she said. “I want to see the UC as something that students are really excited about and that people are really fighting to get on this body so that once they’re here, they’re really...
...post at the end next month, the push for universal evaluation may prove to be the last public act of her deanship. Professors voted to refer questions surrounding evaluations to the Committee on Pedagogical Improvement for further review. At a meeting in May 2006, professors failed to reach a quorum for a binding vote on the same matter even as some of them blasted the proposal for infringing on “professorial autonomy.” The Faculty yesterday also approved next year’s student handbook, which contains the controversial requirement that student leaders could be subject...