Word: hoc
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Vague Deal. The initial attacks on the Whitney's show were, ironically enough from the museum's viewpoint, spearheaded by the group that provoked the exhibition in the first place-the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, an ad hoc committee chaired by Artists Benny Andrews and Cliff Joseph. The B.E.C.C. was originally formed to protest against the racism of the Metropolitan's "Harlem on My Mind," and now claims 150 black artist members. In 1969 it met with Whitney officials to demand a full-scale survey of living black artists...
...foist upon the student body the present election procedures for students? It didn't; the CRR neither made up nor sought to "popularize" the present procedures. Instead, they were drawn up by an ad hoc committee (half student, half faculty) under the auspices of the Faculty Council, on student initiative, and accepted by the Faculty...
...wanted to mention discipline, not just mentioning free speech because anyone would sign a free speech petition," said William Selfidge '73. He said the ad hoc committee consists of "some Young Republicans, a McCarthy Democrat, and a few apathetic people." Selfidge said that the committee had gathered almost 400 signatures after...
...members of the Harvard Republican Club, we wish to clearly disassociate ourselves from Mr. Laszlo Pasztor and his ad hoc Students for a Just Peace. In his statements concerning the Counter Teach-In, Mr. Pasztor implied a connection between the Republican Club and the S.J.P., and, whether intentionally or not, has contributed to many people's association of the Republican Club with the Young Americans for Freedom. No such identification should be made, since many Republicans find both Mr. Pasztor's views and his tactics repugnant...
Another organization, calling itself theAd Hoc Committee for Free. Speech, circulated a petition yesterday which urged "appropriate disciplinary action" against the Teach-In's disrupters and "similar firm disciplinary action" against any future attacks on "the right to freedom of expression...