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...little symbols of Protestant order have been going one by one, all the divinely enduring things of ordinary life and their traditions." When Britain's new government failed to heed the signals of the breakdown and offer any kind of remedy, Protestant laborers, organized into an ad hoc group called the Ulster Workers Council, began walking off their jobs on May 14 as an act of defiance...
Farmers Dumped. An ad hoc group of militants calling themselves the Ulster Workers Council proclaimed a general strike on May 14. They appealed to employees of the power plants, most of whom are Protestants, to stay off the job. Electricity output was cut to a trickle, forcing frequent blackouts and slowing industrial operations. The work stoppage spread to other industries, even though trade unions refused to support the strike...
...organization consists of student representatives from 30 departments and other "ad hoc" members...
...dean." As for consulting students, in the vast majority of Harvard appointments no one ever broaches the question. When the Corporation was looking for a new president of Harvard in 1970, it announced that it would welcome suggestions from anyone, including students. Bok generally meets with ad hoc student committees before he chooses a new House Master. Until the Faculty restructured the Afro-American Studies Department last year, students had the same representation as professors on its execute committee, which meant they got to vote on tenured departmental appointments. A couple of democratic-minded Houses--most notably Currier--let students...
Finally, a group of colleagues who must work closely together must have a certain amount of mutual trust. At the senior faculty level, Harvard protects itself against the obvious dangers of cronyism by the ad hoc committee system; and Affirmative Action procedures often do widen the pool and diminish the potency of the old boy network. But there are costs in the policy of recruiting on an individualistic basis without regard to catalytic quality; and the moral and intellectual quality of a university must be seen as living in precarious tension among competing values. David Riesman...