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...relatively calm debate over the resolution turned into chaos, when attendance proved one short of the 34 members required for a quorum. At one point, supporters of the resolution desperately asked the CRIMSON reporter on the scene to join the HYDC...
...majority of undergraduates--including several Council members--just don't know what to make of the organization. The image of meaningless dictums, quorum-less meetings, and scandalized or uncontested elections still plagues the "new" Council...
...Hughes do, since Breech and Olds had stock control of TWA? When Breech and Olds got to the meeting, they found out. Tipped off by Hughesmen, most of Hughes's directors did not show up at the meeting. An embarrassed Breech and Olds could not even get a quorum, therefore could not get Breech elected to the board. Since the bylaws state that only the directors or a special stockholders' meeting can elect new directors, the two men who control TWA were forced to call a stockholders' meeting to approve their plans. That will not take place...
...CRIMSON. My opinions represent the attitudes of a member of the Student Council but to a greater extent the reactions of a Harvard student to the editorial mentioned above. The editorial chides the Student Council for resorting to a "hastily-contrived inverse technique" in order to obtain a quorum. I agree that the lack of quorum in the Student Council's meetings on several occasions suggests a substantial indifference among its members--most of which indifference can not be attributed to the agenda or to the manner in which the Student Council meetings are conducted...
...political position uncontested. The hope of an uncontested seat motivated individuals who had little interest in performing constructive services for the student community. In reference to the particular meeting which prompted the CRIMSON editorial, it is noteworthy that the members of the Students Council present called for a quorum rather than pass resolutions knowing that a quorum did not exist--this last being allowable parliamentary procedure...