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They see Deborah A. Nord, an expert on the Victorian novel who last spring did the nearly impossible--gaining the endorsement of the English Department for tenure at the University. In a shocking move, President Derek C. Bok and an ad-hoc committee of outside scholars rejected her for a senior position...
While Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III granted a room to the Undergraduate Council's ad-hoc committee on minority and women faculty hiring for the session after a day's delay, he said he was not pleased that the students insisted on creating a scheduling conflict...
...council formally convenes each ad hoc committee to deal with a specific issue, and students volunteer to be members. Traditionally, the council has almost unanimously supported the resolutions put forward by the committees. This has been particularly true for the minority and women faculty hiring committee...
...many council members said the ad hoc committees must remember that they are ultimately responsible to the council. That's why several council members were disappointed that the council did not flatly endorse the 2 p.m. lecture time, just to make that message clear...
...think most people feel the council has control over the ad hoc committees," Bramson said, adding that "this is a very unusual case, and its hard for me to imagine another case where this could come...