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...time. “The number of faculty members in the room for the final vote was so large that we had to move to the science center,” Government professor Jorge I. Dominguez recalled. Debates over the new Gen Ed program, by contrast, repeatedly lacked the quorum necessary to take votes and, when they provoked emotion at all it was because they were, in former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68’s words, informed by a “turf battle mentality” whereby departments vied for representation...
...session were marriage, the value of family, and women’s role in the church. Attendees asked about Mormon attitudes regarding marriages between homosexual couples, marriage between LDS members and non-LDS members. Others questioned why women were not allowed to be on the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a governing body in the Mormon church hierarchy, and why they are not expected to go on missions to seek converts. Harris, who will be going on a mission, told the audience that more and more Mormon women were going on missions. “There?...
...urged Perry to forgo another gubernatorial bid. Masset believes that Perry should be content with one major accomplishment: helping to create more jobs in Texas than the rest of the U.S. during his tenure. "Your place in history is secure," Masset wrote in a recent analysis piece for the Quorum Report, an insider political newsletter that circulates out of Austin, the state capital. "You would be freed up to do great things on the national scene where real power is now held by media stars such...
...think she resigns much before the election if at all," says Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum Report political newsletter. "Perry has already signaled he would replace her with someone committed to sniping at her from D.C.," he said...
According to Kroop, the unanimous decision was made by the smallest number of the seven commissioners needed for a quorum. “Our campaign was suspended by four people, three of whom live in the same room,” he said...