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This casual inwardness has not prevented an ad hoc caste system from forming. Those who railed against privilege only a few years ago now hustle after keys to the best private clubs. After only ten years, Los Angeles' recording industry is hardly mature, but its A-B-C social listings may be more rigid than that of the film community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hanging Out with the L.A. Rockers | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

DECADES OF TRADITION and the structure of the selection process itself make it difficult to pay much immediate attention to teaching ability. The ad hoc committees for tenure are usually composed of President Bok, Rosovsky and two experts in each candidate's field from outside the University. David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology and a member of the Task Force on Pedagogical Improvement, said last month that the opinions of the outside experts are very influential and "guarantee that people get tenure only if they publish books that outsiders read." He said that he remains very skeptical about how much...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: A Faculty of Friends and Fellow-Scholars? | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

...earlier this year, when an ad hoc committee of minority GSAS students charged that the school's minority recruitment program was a complete failure and recommended wide-reaching changes in the program's structure, the Faculty was willing to take the suggestions seriously...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Recruiting for the GSAS | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

Asked if the two Communist safaris were coordinated, since the Cubans have been regarded as the Russians' surrogate in Africa, a State Department official in Washington remarked incredulously: "How could anyone possibly coordinate anything with Castro?" His journey did seem ad hoc (he called up Nyerere only a few days before and asked if he could come), but it had a purpose, and that purpose fitted in with Russia's own intentions. Africans viewed his country hopping along the borders of white-ruled southern Africa as a psychological gesture of defiance aimed at Rhodesia and South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: What the Russians Are Up To | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...IMPORTANT CHANGE in University Hall will take place July 1, as Glen W. Bowersock '57, chairman of the Classics Department, succeeds Francis M. Pipkin as associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. During his three-year appointment Bowersock will closely advise Dean Rosovsky, serve on ad hoc committees for permanent Faculty appointments, and have a major role in shaping and implementing any changes resulting from the University's current review of undergraduate education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bowersock Appointment | 3/31/1977 | See Source »

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