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...program moved through the House relatively intact, thanks to the skillful management of Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, who assembled an ad hoc energy committee to make sure he had tight control of the bill's fate on his turf. But in the Senate, where the rules of procedure do not permit tight organization as in the House, the plan has come completely unstuck. The dismemberment has been greatly aided by an intense lobbying effort by the oil industry, whose powerful friends include Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee. Generally, the House voted to retain...
...issue arose last spring, when an ad hoc group of some 20 students sent a letter to Dean Rosovsky asking him to appoint a special committee, which would investigate the possibility of creating a new degree-granting concentration on Women's Studies...
...September, Rosovsky passed the request on to the council, which has taken its own sweet time discussing the demand--thrashing out the proposal's problems' and potential with students from the ad hoc group and with interested professors through four consecutive weekly meetings...
...hoc students' group immediately issued a statement welcoming the council's vote, but demanding once again that the special committee move beyond "investigating" the issue and take concrete action before the end of the year...
...members of an ad hoc advisory committee to President Bok yesterday predicted the University will not sub-stantially alter its financial policy in the near future...