Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Word soon got out about the new theater. It was cramped and dirty, but also innovative and exciting. The new performing area was only the first of many spaces which students have transformed into ad hoc theaters. This semester, about 40 plays have gone up and it seems every nook and cranny on campus hides a cast and crew. Kiely speculates that Sellars introduced the concept at Harvard: if a space can hold more than 20 people, it's a theater...
...those who employ such rhetoric to criticize the protesters tend to ignore the legitimate and laudable efforts by protest groups to publicize their views. The community might do well to go beyond basic principles and necessary freedoms that most people accept already and begin to develop an ad hoc strategy to ensure free speech for all while recognizing the legitimacy of minority dissent...
...Anyone who says that this is enough and thatwe ought to stop here is wrong," says Jay I. Hodos'89, who served on the council's ad hoc disciplinecommittee...
...matters. Even supporters suggest that Dole's immersion in the details of legislation has blocked the mental leap to a broad-gauge view of national leadership required of a presidential candidate. Says his political consultant David Keene: "Legislative experience teaches you to be tactical and think on an ad hoc basis. He's got to reach inside himself and talk about what he believes and what he sees for the country." Characteristically, Dole's rejoinder is a quip: "Your vision might be 20/20 today, but a few months from now, you might find that you need contacts...
Although the whole house will not vote on thenew policy, Fraser and the ad hoc housingcommittee held a meeting last night to explain thechanges to interested students...