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...Hoc Committee to Fight the Hike, a coalition consisting of the student newspaper The Heights, the student radio station WZBC and the undergraduate government caucus, the legislative branch of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC), organized the tuition demonstration which picketed and chanted outside the meeting between...
Steiner, backed up by President Bok and Archibald Cox '34, Wilston Professor of Law, convinced Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '48 to appoint an ad hoc committee to make changes in the minority admission committee, which will study in effect until the year-long study is completed...
Grandiose, perhaps, but Harvard's tenure proceedings reflect that hope. An ad hoc committee, composed of President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and a group of prominent scholars unaffiliated with Harvard, decide on the tenure appointments, ensuring the recipient of a tenured post will be widely known in his or her field. However, some people are beginning to doubt that Harvard can continue to attract the best scholars...
Mitten suggests the possibility of setting up different tenure tracks, one for teaching and one for research. Perkins also favors altering the tenure process slightly to allow department chairmen to vote on the ad hoc committee instead of furnishing the committee with a written position paper and appearing for testimony. In this way, the chairmen would be able to prompt consideration of some of the younger talent...
...Cecil Andrus, former governor of Idaho and current Secretary of the Interior, who has come to Massachusetts to endorse Tsongas. They have traded compliments about their concern for energy and the environment. Tsongas' driver is doing a steady 75. "As a member of the Select Ad-Hoc Committee on Energy, [Paul] introduced two successful amendments to the National Energy Act requiring conservation studies to reduce gas consumption...