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...duties, even the busiest can afford to spend a few hours on a Tuesday afternoon to act on issues of concern to students. Not only will a vote with higher turnout better reflect the Faculty’s opinion, but high attendance will ensure that the meeting has the quorum necessary to pass binding legislation...
...long-simmering crisis peaked Friday when parliamentarians failed to elect a new head of state to replace Lahoud due to a lack of the required quorum. Despite weeks of back-room negotiations and intense international mediation, the feuding politicians have been unable to find a suitable successor acceptable to both sides. Parliament is scheduled to convene again on November 30 for another attempt at electing a president...
...Israel bias, introduced a motion at last week’s Faculty meeting calling on FAS to reaffirm its commitment to free speech and tolerance of minority views. The Faculty, however, seeing through Matory’s ploy, decided to table the resolution (a sufficient quorum was not present to defeat the proposal). Free speech is necessary component of free society. But Matory’s resolution in favor of “civil dialogue” isn’t really about free speech at all. The actual text of the motion is only one sentence long, articulating...
...Harvard over Israeli policy toward Palestinians. He has claimed that critics of Israel, like himself, “tremble in fear” of repercussions for their views. Many Faculty members questioned Matory’s motives and the motion’s relevance. But the Faculty lacked the quorum necessary for an official vote, and instead chose to table the proposal until its December meeting. Matory’s motion resolved: “That this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express...
...hitch in parliament was that the Hizballah-led opposition - which controls over a third of the chamber's deputies - boycotted the proceedings, preventing the country's majority from having the two-thirds quorum necessary to move to a vote. But the larger problem is that the country's factions are locked in a struggle that has become part of the regional struggle for Middle East supremacy, with Syria and Iran on one side and American and Israel on the other...