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Chances for a revision of the membership clauses of the Student Council constitution died last night when the Council failed to round up a quorum to discuss the issue. Constitutional revision was originally scheduled for the Tuesday night meeting but was postponed because it was crowded out by other business...
...revision committee also proposed a change in the wording of the Council constitution's preamble which made it clear that the Council was in no way a student government. Discussion on the constitution ended without decision because of a lack of a quorum...
...whole system of Council nominations and elections has become absurdly complicated. In class elections less than half of the candidates picked by the nominating committees chose to run. For the House elections there were nomination meetings in every House, but only one of these managed to achieve a quorum, and that by means of a beer party. In all but one of the other Houses unchallenged minorities in insufficiently publicized meetings took charge of nominations...
...shall attend . . . to present a report on the activities of the Council since the last election." This has rarely been done. Specifically in the recent Adams House meeting the Council ignored this duty. Also the Constitution states, "25 percent of the total membership of any House shall constitute a quorum for nominations . . . (and) only recognized members of a House shall be counted for a quorum." The Council rarely identifies and counts those present to ascertain whether a quorum is present--again they failed in this duty at the recent Adams House meeting. The Council is responsible for running nomination meetings...
...Sunday less than the necessary quorum was present in the dining hall, but since it was felt that those men interested would be represented, the meeting was called to order on the common parliamentary premise that if the chairman declares a quorum to exist, a quorum does exist until it is challenged by a member of the body. Four men were nominated from the floor. At this point the quorum was challenged and the meeting dissolved...