Reporter 18/11/98: Results of ballots

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Results of ballots

Grace 1 of 17 June 1998: Establishment of a special panel

The results of the voting on this Grace are as follows:

Option (a) approval of the Grace unamended.
Option (b) approval of the Grace as amended by Amendment A.
Option (c) rejection of the Grace.

Number of valid votes: 1006 (Quota: 503)

Option	First Count Number of votes for each option
(a)	76
(b)	137
(c)	793	Preferred option

This Grace, proposing the establishment of a special panel, is therefore rejected.

Grace 2 of 17 June 1998: Composition and remit of the panel

The results of the voting on this Grace are as follows:

Option (a) approval of the Grace unamended.
Option (b) approval of the Grace as amended by Amendment B.
Option (c) rejection of the Grace.

Number of valid votes: 986 (Quota: 493)

Option	First Count Number of votes for each option
(a)	107
(b)	96
(c)	783	Preferred option

This Grace, containing proposals for the composition and remit of the panel, is therefore rejected.

Grace 3 of 17 June 1998: Establishment of a Syndicate

The results of the voting on this Grace are as follows:

Option (a) approval of the Grace unamended.
Option (b) approval of the Grace as amended by Amendment C.
Option (c) rejection of the Grace.

Number of valid votes: 943 (Quota: 472)

Option	First Count Number of votes for each option
(a)	135
(b)	273
(c)	535	Preferred option

This Grace, proposing the establishment of a Syndicate to consider the structure of academic offices in the University, etc., is therefore rejected.

Grace 4 of 17 June 1998: Approval of the Council's action in submitting Grace 3

The results of the voting on this Grace are as follows:

In favour of the Grace: 490
Against the Grace: 383

This Grace, for the approval of the Council's decision to put forward their own proposal for a Syndicate instead of the Grace promoted by members of the Regent House (see Reporter, 1997-98, p. 575), is therefore approved.

Grace 1 of 29 July 1998: The wearing of academical dress on 'scarlet' days

The results of the voting on this Grace are as follows:

Voting on the Council's proposals and Amendments 1 and 2.

Option (a) approval of the Grace unamended.
Option (b) approval of the Grace as amended by Amendment 1.
Option (c) approval of the Grace as amended by Amendment 2.
Option (d) rejection of the Grace.

Number of valid votes: 908 (Quota 454)

Option	First count Number of votes for each option	Second count Options (b) and (c) excluded
(a)	379	+74	453	Preferred option
(b)	105	-105	-
(c)	101	-101	-
(d)	323	+24	347
Non-transferable		108	108
Total	908	-	908

Voting on Amendment 3

In favour of Amendment 3: 293
Against Amendment 3: 398

This Grace is therefore approved in the form proposed by the Council, including the addition of the following regulation to the general regulations for academical dress:

4. Notwithstanding the foregoing regulations, on the occasions specified in Regulation 3 any member of the University who holds a degree of another university or degree-awarding institution may wear the academical dress appropriate to that degree; save that this provision shall not apply to the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the High Steward, the Deputy High Steward, the Commissary, the Proctors, the Registrary, or the Esquire Bedells, or to a deputy for any of those officers, or to any person presenting or being presented for a degree of the University.

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