Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monday the Council voted to recommend the inclusions in the "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations" a provision making illegal the constitution of any undergraduate organization if the document includes a discriminatory membership clause. The resolution, beaten the first time it was introduced, passed by one vote on a later vote...
Burke, who introduced the approved resolution, said that his chief desire is that everyone who wishes to vote has the chance...
Several Council members yesterday criticized the tactics in the meeting in which Burke's resolution, one of four presented, was voted on again shortly after it had been rejected. Burke was attacked for reading his resolution just before the revote very slowly, while Chase N. Peterson '52, who had left the meeting, was summoned back to take part in the vote...
Then two Council members tried to destroy the quorum and hence invalidate any more Council action by walking out of the room. A quorum remained, however, and a roll call vote favored the adoption of the rule by a vote...
Burke had ceded the chairmanship of the meeting to Treasurer Roy M. Goodman '51 early in the evening so that he would be able to discuss and vote on the discrimination question. After the resolution had passed, several members objected to Burke's tactics, however, for Goodman, who had come out against the resolution, was then unable to vote...