Word: hoc
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...dreamers and the philosophically inclined (especially the social studies fanatics of Harvard), the Harvard Objectivist Club (HOC) welcomes interested students to attend its weekly meetings, lectures and videotape viewings. Ayn Rand, mother of Objectivism, preached "objective reality, reason, rational self-interest and capitalism." According to HOC President Joseph C. Anderson `99, philosophical experience is helpful but not necessary for understanding guest lecturers and essay discussions. "One can still grasp Rand's meaning," notes Anderson, "without being an expert on continental philosophy or the English empiricists." Oh goodie. E-mail hoc@hcs.harvard.edu for meeting times and more information. Happy pondering...
Unless the Docket Committee finds his filing to be "clearly without merit," Harvard procedure calls for the formation of a three-member ad hoc grievance panel to probe the associate professor's allegations...
First, Berkowitz challenges the qualifications of the ad hoc committee convened to assess his scholarly aptitude. He charges that some of its members lacked relevant expertise and that others were predictably hostile to his candidacy because of their academic biases...
...also for Jeremy Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and all the members of Dean Knowles's staff, including former faculty Associate Dean Peter Ellison, a scholar of the biological bases of behavior and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, who assembled the ad hoc committee that advised President Rudenstine on my tenure...
...Harvard Faculty and the broader Harvard University Community. The true basis of our appeal is not to technical misapplication of rule, but to standards of justice and fair play. The internal procedural route may indeed turn out to be as much sham as was Peter's ad hoc committee process, but this, if it happens, will be demonstrated openly on the record of the Berkman Center and will only further strengthen our appeal...