Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoc committee for disarmament, students at MIT will be manning a series of tables set up at strategic points along the route of today's commencement procession At each station they will distribute green armbands which symbolize solidarity with the European disarmament movement...
...best idea to have emerged from representatives discussions is establishing special ad hoc committees which would research subjects like Harvard's investments in South Africa and its sexual harassment policy and insure a devil's advocate before any vote. This would guarantee more informed decision-making without taxing the energy and time of council committees charged with more specific functions. More importantly, it would allow the council to contribute to campus debates constructively: this year the council simply reacted to controversies based-on superficial summaries by students with a special interest in the issues...
...will require more than an ad hoc committee or two to move the council into the thick of student life. A decisive shift in the way many council members view themselves is also necessary. The enthusiasm demonstrated by council members for their work was a welcome departure from the lack sadaisical approach taken by their predecessors. But too often this energy was misdirected. The experience of hobnobbing with Harvard administrators makes it both easy and dangerous for students to distance themselves from their peers. Too many council members fell into this trap. The result was a worri-some haughtiness which...
...Hoc Committee for Academic Freedom, whose members include Professor of biology Ruth Hubbard, Mary L Gray, in structor in obstetrics and gynecology, and MIT and Brandeis University faculty members collected more than 600 signatures for the petition in the advertisement...
Announcement of the rent hike comes one week after President Bok endorsed the recommendations of an ad hoc committee established to examine HRE's affiliate housing. One recommendation was to maintain the University's current policy of renting to students, faculty, and staff at market rates...