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...switch to coeducation now seems a remote possibility, she added. Sophomore Beth S. Posner, the student representative to the faculty, said that a quorum of students voted unanimously to retain the college's single-sex status...
...plan requires that a voting quorum of eightmembers be present to conduct business, but ifstudents were to boycott the body, the FacultyCouncil could reassign the case to the Ad Board or"take other appropriate action." In addition, thenew body will not hear cases involving faculty oradministrators...
...used his National Security Council staff. Both reaped a whirlwind when failure exposed their schemes. But the tidy techniques of shared confidences among the various branches of the Government, so favored by professors, are not well suited to the dark alleys of the globe where passions explode before a quorum can be called...
...UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL has only one serious function so far as we can tell. It allocates approximately $48,000 in student activities fees that it takes each year from our term bills. Last spring, the council was almost paralyzed when it failed to get a quorum for its meeting to hand out money to student groups. In the end, roving impressment gangs dragged enough members into Emerson Hall so that the body could reach the 50 percent attendance that is required under its rules to do business...
...image of a nation tarnished by a flagrant cocaine trade, official corruption and worse. Last week, after three brief sessions, the trial ground to a halt. As the civilian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro stood by, the twelve-member supreme court proved unable to come up with a quorum of judges to reconvene the case. Said a well-placed diplomatic observer: "People are afraid. There's no question about that...