Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women Faculty members. The three-year-old group plans to forward its ideas to the Faculty Council and hopes the Faculty will consider the suggestions when it discusses the minority and women Faculty study at its December meeting. One woman administrator, who is also a member of the ad hoc committee, suggests appointing an advocate for women and minorities on every Faculty search committee...
...California Assemblyman Eugene Chappie of Sacramento. Jim Corman, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was defeated by Bobbi Fiedler, whose chief issue was opposition to court-ordered busing to desegregate schools in Los Angeles County. Ohio's Thomas ("Lud") Ashley, who as chairman of an ad hoc energy committee guided much of President Carter's energy program into law, was upset by Attorney Ed Weber of Toledo. But liberal Warhorse Morris Udall, 58, recently stricken by Parkinson's disease, beat back a strong challenge from a conservative real estate millionaire, Richard Huff, 54, in Arizona...
...Hoc Committee to Review the Structure of College Governance, chaired by John E. Dowling, professor of Biology, is now studying these proposals. The four students, three Faculty members and one administrator on the Dowling Committee have met three times this semester and are scheduled to make a final report to Dean Fox in February. A majority of both students and Faculty will have to ratify the committee's recommendations before they can take effect...
Iran was fighting a mobile, defensive war, in which regular army units were backed by volunteer groups armed with rifles, Molotov cocktails and grenades. These ad hoc "people's forces" were effective in slowing the Iraqi advance. A key element in the Iranian defense was the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, the civil militia, who made up in tenacity and fanaticism what they lacked in military discipline...
Rudenstine said the university already has allocated funds to purchase additional material about South Africa for Princeton's libraries. The council's ad hoc working group on South Africa had recommended these actions to the university last year...