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President Bok's open letters and recent collection of essays on the role of the university "create the impression that Harvard did indeed care about these important issues when in fact it didn't, "says Molyneux, adding that the new book attempts to take ad hoc decisions and justify them within a systematic framework. "Somehow every-time he thinks about a problem he comes to the conclusion that the status quo is right...
Once a department votes to recommend that Harvard ask a scholar to spend the rest of his life in the Yard, President Bok convenes an ad hoc committee of scholars from Harvard and other universities who carefully scrutinize the candidate's qualifications. After the committee's session, Bok himself makes the final decision on the candidate...
...appears that Dean Rosovsky will himself inform the student of the College's action. But this is an ad hoc decision that does not seem to reflect any official policy, and the decision came only after the student publicly charged the College with ignoring her interests Deans Fox and Lewis continue the official policy of the College in not speaking about the case...
...herbicide conjured up a future of inadequate nostalgia and provoked a level of outrage that has not seen its peer since the Rolling Stones cancelled their Boston concerts. A Student Assembly member called the ivy "one of the graver issues of our time" and tried to establish and ad hoc preservation committee. (He failed when someone noticed that the assembly did not have a quorum that night...
...coalition had requested that Vorenberg create an ad hoc committee to consider the plan as a whole in order to give the proposal sufficient consideration...