Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier this year, when an ad hoc committee of minority GSAS students charged that the school's minority recruitment program was a complete failure and recommended wide-reaching changes in the program's structure, the Faculty was willing to take the suggestions seriously...
Asked if the two Communist safaris were coordinated, since the Cubans have been regarded as the Russians' surrogate in Africa, a State Department official in Washington remarked incredulously: "How could anyone possibly coordinate anything with Castro?" His journey did seem ad hoc (he called up Nyerere only a few days before and asked if he could come), but it had a purpose, and that purpose fitted in with Russia's own intentions. Africans viewed his country hopping along the borders of white-ruled southern Africa as a psychological gesture of defiance aimed at Rhodesia and South Africa...
...IMPORTANT CHANGE in University Hall will take place July 1, as Glen W. Bowersock '57, chairman of the Classics Department, succeeds Francis M. Pipkin as associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. During his three-year appointment Bowersock will closely advise Dean Rosovsky, serve on ad hoc committees for permanent Faculty appointments, and have a major role in shaping and implementing any changes resulting from the University's current review of undergraduate education...
...another move during the meeting, CHUL voted unanimously to establish an ad hoc subcommittee to study a House assignment system similar to Yale's, which affiliates freshmen with a "college" upon their entrance and offers them no choice...
...hoc committee of Columbia University students and employees has collected over 700 signatures protesting the possible appointment of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 to the Columbia faculty, a spokesman for the committee said yesterday...