Word: suspended
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...article focuses on the Council's failure to suspend a rule, requiring that any resolution with a budget over five hundred dollars be scrutinized by a committee beforehand, in order to grant several thousand dollars to the Rugby Club. Now if the Council's resources were limitless, and we could spend at whim without any attention to economy or consistency, then we could well have afforded the Rugby Club's grant and I doubt that many members would have opposed it. But the Council is not infinitely rich: therefore we have of necessary developed guidelines to order our spending, based...
Which value should have prevailed is purely a matter of opinion. I would have preferred to suspend the rule requiring scrutiny by a committee, but I can fully appreciate the arguments against its suspension. The Council voted for the option which, in its opinion, was best and fairest for the undergraduate community: that we achieve consistency for all organizations at the expense of a few is unfortunate but inevitable. I hardly think that the members who voted against suspending the rule brought any discredit upon themselves or the Council by doing...
...council refused to suspend a new bylaw to allow a vote on a last-minute funding request to send the Men's Rugby Football Club to the national championships in California Thursday...
...heated debate, council members decided not to suspend the new procedures, prompting some to complain that the group had become a "body of rules, not a body that looks at issues," according in Quincy House representative Douglas A. Winthrop...
...Georgetown graduate on hand in Seattle last week called the ultimate 84-75 victory over Houston a "demonstration of our superior intellect." There are better players hi the N.B.A., but it is the fans' ability to suspend reason that sets off the college game. Students and alumni genuinely imagine that they have something in common with the people enlisted to play basketball for them, holding onto the spirit of a time when everyone matriculated together and a few went out for the team. Cynicism is not unknown, only suppressed. In some places, a lot of things are suppressed...