Word: quorums
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...contrast, during the Student Assembly’s final semester the previous spring, only a little over half of the assembly’s 90 seats were filled. Attendance was so low at the organization’s last meeting in April that attendees did not meet the quorum necessary for the government to disband itself...
...decision to rename the Department of English and American Language and Literature to the Department of English was also confirmed after being similarly deferred from the last meeting due to the lack of quorum...
After failing to draw the numbers necessary to conduct official votes at almost a third of its meetings in the past four years, the Faculty considered lowering its quorum standards for attendance at its meeting last month, only to find themselves below the attendance threshold once again...
This time, the presence of a quorum was never questioned, and the official vote on a lower attendance figure went forward. The number of meeting attendees required for a binding vote will be decreased from one sixth to one eighth of the more than 700 FAS professors...
...Isn’t FAS business, by definition, “ground to a halt” if quorum is not reached at FAS meetings? Not in today’s modern world, of course—faculty members are not involved in most of the school’s day-to-day operations. But University Professor Stanley Hoffmann had it right when he responded to Smith by comparing the messy behemoth that is FAS central administration to the bureaucratic morass of his home country, France...