Word: quorums
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...detect in this some secret semiotic code or bewitchment,” he said of the change. “But you won’t find it.”The motion will have to be confirmed at the next Faculty gathering due to the lack of quorum at yesterday’s meeting. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...probably there won’t be a big difference in the turnout.” Psychology Professor James Sidanius also recognized the possibility that a lowered attendance threshold might in fact have a negative effect on turnout. “In one sense the impetus to lower the quorum number is more a result than a cause of lower participation, although there’s likely to be a feedback loop between them,” he said. But James H. Stock, chair of the Economics department and fellow scholar of human incentive, took a slightly different tack than...
...enthused about the revision, calling it a “routine change.” The Faculty also agreed to discuss a proposed lowering of the quorum—the threshold needed to pass motions—from one-sixth to one-eighth, at its meeting next Tuesday. The quorum proposal has been pending since it passed the Faculty Council nearly a month ago. When the Council decided to send the quorum issue before the full Faculty, anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 expressed mixed feelings on the issue. “On the one hand...
With regard to the upcoming quorum motion, Stock noted the potential for embarrassment if the Faculty fails to have enough members present to vote on the issue...
...there will be self-evident irony (and perhaps some red faces) if we have a meeting to discuss changing the quorum and fail to get a quorum,” he said in an e-mail. “But that would simply highlight the importance of making that change...