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...committee's recommendations are approved by masters, each house will decide on an ad hoc basis whether to take advantage of the increased options for its parties...
...college's invitation to students this spring to serve on the CRR was the first such request in six years, except for an ad hoc invitation last May, when the body was revived to hear the cases of 18 students involved with two anti-apartheid protests...
Meese's implausible assertions epitomize the ad hoc nature of the rationalizations usually offered in support of state-sanctioned murder. Normally, one could reject remarks like these as unfounded yet insignificant in comparison with more substantive views on the issue. But like it or not, Meese is the attorney general, and one cannot cursorily dismiss his views on capital punishment as having no bearing on the administration of "justice" in the United States...
Last spring, when the department voted to grant tenure to Paul E. Starr, an associate professor in sociology, Bok vetoed the decision after a split vote of the ad hoc committee. Starr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Social Transformation of American Medicine," was the first junior faculty member to be recommended for tenure by the Sociology Department in 16 years. Starr now holds a tenured position at Princeton University...
...hoc committee was then formed in order to evaluate Skocpol's scholarship, and the vote of the committee was split, according to sources in the department...