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This positive dimension finds expression in the activities of several groups in the Harvard community. Among these are an undergraduate committee sponsoring speeches and discussions on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Houses, the current campaign to raise money for the Israel Emergency Fund and the ad hoc committee on UNESCO and Israel. Active participation in constructive efforts such as these shows that the circle of ambivalence can be broken...
...proposal for such a change comes from Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges, and his ad-hoc committee of four Faculty members who have agreed that the Faculty should strengthen requirements for the cum laude degree in General Studies (CLGS) and the summa cum laude undergraduate honors degree...
...twelve committees now standing, says Prisons was one of the first committees to "change over." He says the committee to "change over". He says the committee really began to change direction in the summer of 1973, when he himself was working for a Massachusetts organization, the Ad Hoc Committee for Prison Reform. During that summer, John Boone, commissioner of correction, who was working for the elimination of correctional institutions, was fired after holding office for a year. Phillips Brooks House decided to join the loose coalition of people and organization in the state pressing for radical change in the penal...
After much internal struggle and strain, the Democrats managed last week to produce their long-awaited " alternative" to President Ford's price-oriented energy program. The plan, drafted in haste by ad hoc task forces from both Houses of Congress, led by Rhode Island Senator John Pastore and Texas Representative James Wright, had both practical and political purposes. First, it was intended as a guide for Democrats on various committees drafting energy legislation, although it is not binding upon them. Second, and more important, it was to serve as the Democrats' bargaining position in working out energy policy...
...House, voted 66 to 28 to postpone for 90 days the President's three-stage, $3 per bbl. tariff increase on imported oil. Thus they cleared the way for enactment of an alternative program that will concentrate on reducing consumption without raising prices. Both houses have ad hoc committees working on energy programs. Said Texas Representative Jim Wright, who heads the House task force: "Relying on a tariff to cut domestic consumption is roughly analogous to a husband's arranging with a merchant to raise the prices on women's clothing in the hope that his wife...