"I think the second issue here is just a staff-student power nexus," she said.

Nero also charged that the board did not approve changes in the vehicles policy made by Smith earlier in the summer.

In addition, Nero said the August 10 meeting of the board, during which she was asked to resign, was improper in three ways.

* Parliamentarian Christopher J. Davidson '95 was absent from the meeting, so King served as chair and set all procedure.

* While King said the association's bylaws require two-thirds of the "possible" voting board members to attend, only 11 of 17 members showed up. Nero said that made the meeting illegitimate. But because one member was in England and one in the hospital, King said he decided to set quorum at 10--two thirds of a "possible" 15.

* Nero said she should have been allowed to vote at the meeting. King said Robert's Rules of Order required that he bar her from voting on a disciplinary matter concerning herself.

Davidson, the parliamentarian, said yesterday he endorses the decisions King made in the meeting.

"If half the board perished in plane accident, you wouldn't say, 'we don't have quorum,'" Davidson said.

Insurance Deductible

PBHA's vehicles policy says association drivers must pay the first $50 of the insurance deductible resulting from any accident in which they are at fault. The rest of the accident's cost is split between the driver and whichever committee was responsible for the van at the time of the accident.

But Nero said she and her committee decided prior to her accidents to split the deductible between all the adults present in the vehicle.

"There are people who can't drive and yet their kids are being taken around," Nero said. "I thought that was unfair. In my committee, I said I wanted to make it half [the deductible] to the committee and half split between the counselors in the van."

Nero said none of her committee members objected to this proposal. She included the decision in her minutes of the committee meeting and sent those minutes to PBH Director of Programming Monique Dixon.

Dixon raised no objections to the plan, Nero said. Repeated efforts to reach Dixon were unsuccessful.

But King and Smith said Nero had no authority to change the policy on insurance deductibles.