Governance Court
Each quarter, the community’s 1,920 presidents convene in four simultaneous governance courts, held in buildings 5 and 17. Building 5 holds two courts — a lower court for partnered males, and a higher court for partnered females. Building 17, mirroring it, holds a lower court for single males and a higher court for single females. Each court seats 480 presidents, on floors 2 and 4 of its building. This graphic represents one governance court (all four are identical in seating and orientation); because the east and west end courts seat different departments in bilateral parity — Departments I–IV on the west stand, V–VIII on the east — the west stand is lettered separately.
The court is where the community’s presidencies sit together, and its seating is the governance structure drawn as a room. Seats are numbered in matching order in all four courts, so the same seat in each forms one presidency of four. For the rest of the quarter the floor is used for recreation, shown on Governance Court — Recreational Use. How the seats group into presidencies is drawn on The Four Segment Courts and The Presidency of Three.