Word: quorums
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...with the length of the meeting—the UC’s last for the year—nearing two hours, the proceedings were brought to an abrupt end when Financial Committee Chair Alexander N. “Zander” Li ’08 broke the quorum necessary for voting, departing the Harvard Hall conference room where the meeting was held in protest over lagging debate on the UC floor...
...Stubbs said. Pellegrino University Professor Peter L. Galison said that if all advanced departmental courses could be counted for general education credit, the Faculty “would immediately and without qualification have a distribution requirement, rendering useless everything we have discussed.” Since professors lacked a quorum when they gathered in University Hall yesterday for their meeting—the fifth gathering of the Faculty in five weeks—no official votes were taken on the final proposed amendments to the general education program slated to replace the often-criticized Core Curriculum. While the Core focuses...
...have made Gul President. Handpicked by his longtime ally Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gul was ahead in the ballot, but the court, in a ruling that appeared to betray its secularist bias, upheld claims by Turkey's main secularist political party that the balloting was unconstitutional because a quorum wasn't present-no matter that the opposition engineered that shortfall by boycotting the vote, or that at least one President had previously been elected with a smaller quorum. Faced with this deadlock, Erdogan announced that he will call a general election in July to remove what Gul called...
...that this would change if students could count the courses for credit.Fewer professors attended yesterday’s meeting than the previous three meetings devoted to general education legislation. And although the Faculty voted to extend the meeting by 30 minutes, a number of professors left early, ending the quorum needed for votes on remaining issues.The Faculty will continue discussing the general education legislation at a previously unscheduled meeting next Tuesday.Interim Dean David Pilbeam, who is standing in for Jeremy R. Knowles as Knowles battles prostate cancer, addressed the Faculty for the first time yesterday since taking the position last...
...court found that the AKP did not have a quorum in parliament when it attempted to elect Gul to the presidency last week. The judges did not comment on the fact that the secularist opposition party that lodged the petition had, in fact, engineered that shortfall by boycotting the first round. Nor did judges take note that on at least one previous occasion, in the 1980s, a President was elected without the same quorum the court deemed necessary in this instance. (At that time, no one challenged the result.) Still, the judgment has been accepted, and the AKP has called...