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About 30 concerned students gathered last night in an emergency ad hoc committee to discuss rape prevention on campus in the wake of the arrest of Joshua M. Elster `00 Saturday on the charges of rape and assault of a Harvard student...
...know of no improper relationship between the president and Monica Lewinsky or any other White House intern," Self said yesterday at an ad hoc press conference outside the U.S. Court House...
...astounded when the ad hoc Grape Coalition was formed; never before in my memory had a conservative group taken an active stance in campus politics. Conservatism here tends to be expressed in enforced apathy. The opinions of Harvard students or the Undergraduate Council do not matter in the world, they say, and it is pretentious to think that Pepsi will pull out of Burma just because we say so (I'm sure they pulled out from the goodness of their corporate hearts). But to have a group challenge the very foundation of the progressive liberal orthodoxy was new and frightening...
Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools....Rudenstine should consider installing a tenure track. At the very least, he should abolish the ad hocs...
Last spring, the Fund had asked for an ad hoc grant to pay the photo copying and labeling costs required to inform seniors about their alternatives...