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Harvard's screening committees, faculty committees, tenure committees, and ad hoc committees are assigned the responsibility for selection of applicants. All are uniformly made up of men. This is another factor which has an effect on retaining the sex composition of the Harvard faculty...
Hyland was active in the 1968-69 SDS campaign against ROTC as a member of the "New Left Caucus." After about 200 students occupied University Hall on April 9, 1969, in support of demands which included the abolition of ROTC, Hyland was elected chairman of the ad hoc meeting of insurgent students inside the occupied building...
...Teach-In" was announced on the weekend of March 19 by an ad hoc group, formed for the occasion, called Students for a Just Peace-an amalgam of conservative students including virtually all of Harvard's fledgling chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and the right-wing elements of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Republican Club. Their announced list of speakers forced the "Teach-in" into the forefront of the community's consciousness, for it included Bui Diem, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States, Dolf Droge, a White House advisor on Indochina, and Anand Sandering Ham, Royal Thai...
...that took place at Harvard began, rather appropriately, with a farm worker cause early in the fall. Working along with the United Farmers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) representative in Boston, a group of students, both Chicano and Anglo, decided to press Harvard into buying only UFWOC picked lettuce. The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Scab Lettuce at Harvard designed a petition asking for only union lettuce, collected 1100 signatures, and presented it to the Harvard Administration. The petition was dismissed because it represented the wishes of only a small group of students. After some long-winded meetings with Administration personnel...
...same time that the Ad Hoc Committee was negotiating with the University, the United Mexican American Students of Boston (UMAS), an organization representing all the Chicano students in Boston area schools, was beginning its second recruiting drive. Receiving funds from a number of Boston universities, including Harvard, UMAS was able to send some 18 recruiters to the Southwest, the Northwest, and some cities in the Midwest. Though not promised any specific quotas by the various universities, admissions officers did imply that Chicano applications would receive special consideration. In order words, the admissions committees would try to look at a Chicano...