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While according to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59, full Faculty meeting attendance jumped from an average of 120, most of the more than 650 members of the Faculty eligible to discuss and vote on the case of D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, never signed in at the March 9 meeting...
Foote says that when he heard that the Faculty was to vote on the dismissal of an undergraduate at last week's meeting, he resolved to attend. But when he didn't write down the date, Foote says, he quickly forgot...
...watched elected representatives fool themselves that they somehow were more entitled to make a decision allocating the 40k than the students they claimed to care so much about. We are nothing without them, yet we think and behave as though they don't matter once they give us their vote....I don't want to be connected with this self-important, voluntarily and fiercely isolated organization that couldn't possibly be more out of touch with what representative government really means...
...downsizing bill earlier this year, but it failed at the hands of representatives who either bought ridiculous arguments about a bigger council meaning better representation or, more likely, feared that they would not be re-elected to a smaller council. But it's illogical to expect the council to vote to shrink itself, and that will likely never happen. Which is why, with the council coming to us for a change, and down on its knees and begging at that, now is the time for constituents to cut the council a deal: We will give you more money...
...Massachusetts legislature's joint Public Safety Committee discussed the bill Monday. A vote is expected in two weeks...