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Tolis said the council had already dismissed two members, Sean C. Griffin '90 of Adams House, for poor attendence in order to maintain a quorum last week. Council rules require half the body--which generally consists of 88 members--to be present for business to occur...
Unable to maintain a quorum for the fourth straight week, the Undergraduate Council last night conducted its final meeting of the year with more than half its members absent, its officers acknowledging that the results were not technically binding...
Although Council Chair Guhan Subramanian '92 said during the meeting that he had expelled enough of the council's members to maintain a quorum, Vice Chair Athan G. Tolis '91 said that no one actually was expelled last night...
Tolis said that the council's business--including a vote to hold a College-wide referendum on divestment next fall--was technically invalid unless ratified by a quorum, but added that the council would proceed with the referendum and other actions anyway...
...last week's meeting, Subramanian made a motion to continue business without a quorum, requiring the full council to ratify the evening's decisions at a later date. Tolis said last night that the expulsion of Griffin and Ruiz had made the previous meeting official...