Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoc subcommittee on housing of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life recommended earlier this year that if too many House residents failed to hand in their cards, students should have to deposit one month's room rent that would be used to pay for any damage to their room...
Dean Rosovsky's move last week to sharpen the focus on teaching abilities in tenure decisions is laudable, if long overdue. His request that department chairmen include separate evaluations of teaching skills with ad hoc tenure recommendations suggests that perhaps teaching will become an important criterion for Harvard faculty. If teaching ability received as careful a scrutiny as research and publications in tenure decisions, the Harvard education--at least from the students' point of view--would improve immensely...
When an ad hoc group of students representing several third world student organizations last month demanded that the University officially recognize Asian-American students as members of a minority group, it scored only a partial victory. For while Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, agreed to include Asian-American students in future programs for minorities sponsored by his office, he declined to endorse their demand for minority status...
...Cassandras today who perceive the painful parallels between Jimmy Carter and the much-maligned Mr. Nixon. Humorless and ambitious, highly sensitive to negative press coverage, Carter emerges an ironic product of the Watergate mentality. He and his counterparts appear bereft of all commitment. They are masters of ad hoc politics, practitioners of a winning "master plan...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students' Association has formed an ad hoc committee to raise money for use by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in a Mississippi law suit brought against the civil rights organization...