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...union owes only a small percentage of its assets to creditors-giving the lie to the argument that District65's organizing drive was largely a mercenary operation-many workers who said they opposed the union questioned its negotiating efectiveness. Spurred by the University's information campaign, several ad-hoc workers' groups organized against the union, arguing that District 65's lack of success in organizing and bargaining betrayed more than a hint of organizational incompetence. And in the end, it apparently was this economic argument, questioning District 65's ability to provide tangible benefits rather than ideological niceties, that carried...
...procedures instituted to consider his nomination continue to disturb many concerned students and junior faculty who wish to remain at Harvard on a tenured basis. Among other questionable practices that marked the events leading to the rejection of his nomination, Isaac notes that not one member of the ad hoc committee established to consider his application "knew anything" about his specialization, although the committee members were chosen with the full knowledge of Isaac's field of academic research...
Moreover, Isaac says that his nomination, sponsored exclusively by Afro, was submitted to the ad hoc panel along with two other candidates who had been nominated by other departments and who were under consideration for joint tenure appointment. He adds that the University never told him that his candidacy would be referred to the same ad hoc committee reviewing two nominees sponsored by other departments with disparate specializations. Finally, Isaac alleges that "at least one member of the committee was known to have a conflict of interest with, and antagonism to, the development of African subject" within the department...
Mark Fiedler '78, co-chairman of Advocating a Better Learning Environment, a group designed to present the needs of Harvard's handicapped, said yesterday the University has persisted in dealing with the problem solely on an ad hoc basis...
...arrangement would be made. Shortly after the receipt of the scholarship, Smith sent another letter saying that his mother was going to re-marry and he wanted to change his name to his new father's name. The College again said fine, provided the change was not done ad hoc but legally, and that he could show Harvard the documents. The College didn't hear anything from him for a while until right before school began when he wrote that the marriage hadn't worked...