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...combination of internal complications and uncertainty about the convention's role and strategy have caused the delay. Establishing bylaws, for example, became a two-week affair. First a committee established to decide on rules of procedure for the convention met and hashed out decisions on voting rights, quorum size and other issues. Then the full convention, in a classic display of Monday-morning quarterbacking, proceeded to debate the by-laws item by item, and after two meetings agreed on an amended version that looked suspiciously like the original version...
Other items on the agenda, such as the crucial presentation of plans for the new government, were pushed back one week, and then another, while the convention haggled over minor points. Several planned meetings had to be cancelled when the convention failed to produce a quorum of 35 students (including one member from 12 of the 14 delegations from the Houses and the freshman class). A letter to organizations of minority undergraduates asking them to send delegates to present their viewpoints on student government, which a subcommittee drafted in November, was finally mailed out early this week...
Although delegates to the student Constitutional Convention failed to reach a quorum last night at their first meeting of 1978, several members expressed optimism that a growing consensus on major questions would aid the creation of a new student government...
...United States Senate," Ambrose Bierce wrote at the turn of the century, "a quorum consists of the chairman of the Finance Committee and a messenger from the White House." Long would x prefer that the White House messengers stay home. Says he: "I'm 3 the President's friend, but I'm not his boy. I don't represent the President in the Senate. I represent the people of Louisiana...
Jewish authorities hold that a Jew who adopts Christianity - or any other religion - is a meshummad (apostate), a grievous sinner who incurs various penalties. He may not be a witness in a Jewish legal proceeding or count in the minyan, or quorum for prayer. He remains technically a Jew, however, since the Talmud says that "a Jew who sins is still...