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Under the standard grievance procedure in such cases, Wright may choose one member of the three-member ad hoc committee that will hear her complaint. Dean Rosovsky and Huggins select the other two grievance committee members. When Wright tapped Southern, however, the executive committee rejected Southern as "inappropriate," and asked Wright to select someone else...
...like the one at Mobil, the Corporation chooses to hide behind a smokescreen of excuses, citing items of grammar or careless wording that supposedly render resolutions infeasible or impracticable. The Corporation purports to consider individual stockholder issues seriously, sticking to its policy of considering each one on an ad hoc basis. Since 1972, when it created the ACSR, the Corporation has delegated to that committee the gathering of facts and the interpreting of community opinion on various stockholder issues. But how can the ACSR's faculty, student and alumni members be expected to continue their time-consuming work diligently...
...magazine's legitimacy and generally to the cause of pornography; still others invoked our supposed obligation to run it. In addition, several editors felt that since The Crimson lacks a focused policy, it was unfair or inconsistent to vote to pull the Screw ad by a strictly ad hoc decision...
...reject the Screw ad, like similar decisions in the past, was reached at a staff meeting where all staff members--news, editorial, photo and business--could participate. The Crimson has no set, rigid, policy for deciding which ads should be rejected--it has made all such decisions ad hoc at these meetings. They have served over the years to clarify just why the Crimson occasionally refuses to print an ad and to test the decisions against several objections. The objections have fallen into a few categories, which include...
Straights for Gays, an ad hoc student group, will present the faculty Council today with a petition signed by more than 1300 undergraduates who believe the University should adopt a formal policy of non-discrimination against gays and lesbians...