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...faculty has a responsibility to say 'You can't mess up the educational program,'" said Professor of Law Richard B. Stewart, chairman of the faculty's Ad Hoc Committee on the Law Review...
Members of a five-student ad hoc committee created to address the recent complaints yesterday refused to disclose any specific recommendations. But they said this summer's student-faculty discussions had opened lines of communication between previously isolated students and faculty members and had helped resolve other problems plaguing the department...
Furthermore, these students will have no clear idea of the process they will enter. The Crimson reported on May 10 that even the Faculty members who've been on the committee all year haven't a clue. Such an arrangement may be appropriate for an ad hoc committee convened to deal quickly with an unusual committee. Such committees require clear operating guidelines and a carefully constituted membership...
...took a bizarre turn two weeks ago. Joginder Singh, 83, the father of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the firebrand who had led the revolt for an independent Sikh state before he died in the army attack on the Golden Temple, suddenly announced the formation of a nine-member ad hoc committee to run Sikh affairs. Joginder Singh's selection of a number of extremists as members of the new group indicated that the action was an attempt to supersede more moderate leadership of the movement...
...measure is the ferocity of debate it has generated in the past few months among eminent researchers, at conferences and in the letters-to-the-editor columns of major newspapers and staid journals alike. Supporters of the Milky Way proposal dismiss the Nemesis notion as "unlikely" and "ad hoc," and death star advocates are scornful of the galactic concept. Many consider all the newfangled extraterrestrial scenarios to be half-baked takeoffs of H.G. Wells. Says an indignant Dewey McLean, a paleontologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute: "It's science gone absolutely bonkers...