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...city, police fired tear gas and waded into crowds of demonstrators with dogs and sjamboks, quirts traditionally used by Afrikaner farmers and originally made of rhino hide. Soon more than 50 organizations with a total membership in the millions were formally boycotting the festivities. Declared an ad hoc committee formed to protest the celebrations: "The Republic Festival is window dressing to fool the world that all is fine in sunny South Africa." Snapped Black Leader Gatsha Buthelezi: "We cannot celebrate our own oppression...
Rosovsky's decision to advance Skockpol's case effectively overturned the department's vote. An ad hoc committee met last week to consider recommending the 33-year-old sociologist for tenure. Ad hoc committees, a regular part of the tenure process, are composed of three or four scholars from outside the University, two tentired members of the Faculty outside the department, and, as ex-officio members, Bok and Rosovsky. Bok has final say, subject to approval by the Harvard Corporation, on all tenure appointments...
Every year, the search process has quietly hummed through the fall, winter and spring, and finally spit out a speaker. How did it work in 1980-81? A little differently from most years because of the presidential intervention, but it's ad hoc in any case. "I don't think there's an exact science," Henry G. Van der Eb '42, who as president of the AHA had a major say in the selection, says. "It's an evolving, rolling process." While primary responsibility rests with the AHA, the informal consultating process and the tentative feelers that are extended...
...that the University's unique method of awarding tenure influences its ability to grant it--and the likelihood of doing so. Unlike most universities. Harvard tenures faculty after an claborate process--which one professor calls "checks and balances"--that begins with departmental nominations, continues with approval by an ad hoc committee and concludes with a final go-ahead from President Bok. Deeply embedded in each stage is the notion that Harvard must maintain its high academic standards with every appointment. Research and professional esteem thus come to play a decisive factor in the selection process--particularly, faculty...
...some of the questions began to come to light last summer, Bok consulted with several Faculty members individually and organized an ad hoc committee to mull over the issue. "This was very much in the context of thinking. 'Let's see how we can work this out in a manner that will conform with academic values and benefit the University,'" Bok says now, recalling that professors who got wind of the proposal and came to him in opposition to it "weren't mad--they were just concerned." By the time the school year began, it had become evident that academic...