Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find it damn discouraging to believe that the young ex-Navy lieutenant crying his heartfelt convictions out before a congressional ad hoc committee represents the majority feeling of America's youth. His fervent belief to be the "first to defend this nation should its shores be threatened" represents archaic thinking in a technological world...
Rogers refused Thursday to outline the reasons behind the change, saying that the Hartman case is "still very much an issue at the GSD" and that discussion of the ad hoc procedures could influence those persons who will consider Hartman's appeal...
Hartman sent a memorandum to the GSD Faculty in anticipation of the ad hoc procedures, in which he said the exclusion of the notion of academic due process "clearly, and totally without justification, deprive [s] me an important area of appeal which the faculty specifically included in the original guideline...
...THIRD recommendation is simply a strong endorsement of a policy only recently announced by the Dean of the Faculty: that department chairmen should provide ad hoc committees on permanent appointments with "evidence that consideration was given to women... by including in the materials they submit the names received and the steps taken to ascertain potential candidates...." We regard this as an absolutely crucial enforcement mechanism and would suggest that when the evidence submitted is unsatisfactory, ad hoe committees should themselves take an active role in trying to ascertain whether there are qualified women candidates for the open position...
Some ethicists and scientists argue that the worries, the plans and the proposals are premature, that ethics has always been an ad hoc thing, dealing with the world as it is, not as it might be in the future. Given the enormousness of the new problems and the speed of change, that attitude may be a luxury...