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Both Perkins and Goldfarb indicated that they expected a boycott by those favoring yesterday's action, thus preventing the meeting from reaching the necessary two-thirds quorum...
...Sydney has just published the first issue of its newsletter Mejane, named for Tarzan's overly protected mate. Says Daryl Jackson, a young Melbourne architect who has worked and studied in the U.S.: "On all of these issues there is now what might be called a viable quorum. A few years ago there were not enough people concerned with them even to get a dialogue going. Now you can have a debate on any of them. That's the biggest change here in the past five years...
Councillors Edward Crane '35, Thomas Danehy, Robert Montcreiff, Thomas Coates, and Daniel Clinton all left the meeting while it was in progress, leaving the Council without a quorum...
Following a ten-minute executive session in which the Faculty voted to readmit two students who had been dismissed, Dean Dunlop thanked Faculty members who had submitted to last-minute telephone pleas to help make up a quorum...
...quorum for a religious service (minyan) is ten men, and-except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps...