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...amendment, proposed in October by the conservative Students' Alliance for Fairness (SAFF), would prevent the council from reserving seats for specific student groups on ad hoc committees. It was suggested after two seats on the student dean search committee were reserved for members of the Coalition for Diversity, an umbrella organization for minority students...
...visiting professor at the University of Chicago, broke the task into smaller pieces and dispatched them over ordinary phone lines to computers at universities and corporations. The results were then compiled by minicomputers at a Digital Equipment lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The success of the ad hoc network, one of the largest ever assembled, raises problems for cryptographers and intelligence agencies, whose code solutions are often based on the prime factors of long, hard-to-solve integers. But it certainly demonstrates the enormous power of small computers linked together by electronic mail. Their answer...
Borys Gudziak, who is pursuing an Ad Hoc degree in Slavic Cultural and Intellectual History, will soon head to Poland where he will study the ecclesiastical developments in the Ukraine in the final decades of the 16th century...
...find their greatest luxury in not being hemmed in by any preconceptions at all. Consider the Los Angeles artist known as Gronk. He has impeccable Chicano credentials: born in 1954 in mostly Chicano East Los Angeles, he was a co- founder in his younger days of an ad hoc group of Latino artists who brought their art to the streets. But all of that was the forcing ground for a talent that resists ethnic labels. His paintings carry echoes of Mexican symbolism, but they also wear the signs of European expressionism, new-wave imagery, old- fashioned camp. And he recalls...
...hoc committee of faculty and administrators chaired by Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics David S. Landes was convened for the sole purpose of considering the justice of the policy for allocating the studies. The committee, which met throughout the 1986-87 school year, decided to enforce the existing policy of assigning studies in order of the waiting list, according to Bailey...