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...surviving Official committees--not counting ad hoc appointed groups, like the ones that study the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe--are the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, the House committees and the Freshman Council. (There are also supposed to be students on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which steps in when demonstrators get out of hand, but the House Committees won't send representatives to it because they say that would legitimize a repressive group...
There are also smaller groups (the Lowell House and other women's groups for example), groups that appear and disappear fairly frequently (the New Right Coalition and other libertarian groups, for example) and ad hoc pressure groups that spring up around particular issues. Last year there were groups interested in raising money for the victims of the North African drought, picketing military recruiters, changing the academic calendar, and raising money for Israel during the October...
...first year of the student-faculty-alumni Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and the subcommittee of the Corporation that it reports to, had been a cautious one marked by strong student interest--an ad hoc student ACSR took votes on every major proxy resolution and conveyed its sentiments to the full ACSR...
...chief academic officer of the University's largest faculty, Rosovsky views his major concern as preserving the quality of the individuals on faculty. He spends more time than other deans advising departments on teaching appointments and on the work of the ad hoc committees which decide who is nominated for tenured Faculty positions...
...their personal life. For instance, a former Air Force pilot who was held prisoner in a North Vietnameses POW camp in Hanoi was granted permission to study sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But the Special Students program is small: it is run on an ad hoc basis, and because most of its students study as graduates, they come into little contact with undergraduates...