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...citizens groups, ex-offender groups and church groups joined together to form the Ad Hoc Committee on Prison Reform, a group that put pressure on Governor Francis W. Sargent, with mailing and campaigning, to reform prisons. In February 1972, Sargent appointed a new commissioner of corrections, John Boone, and introduced a new prison reform bill, Chapter 777. The bill, which the legislature passed in June 1972, gave Boone the power to make changes such as work releases, furloughs, and education releases--all reforms which increase the prisoners' interaction with the community...
...apparently believes that tough standards will at least cut the federal work load. Consumer and environmental advocates fear that the new decision is a chill wind for class actions. Said Bill Butler, Washington counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund: "It's a severe blow to the unorganized, ad hoc groups that want action on particular offenses." Certain kinds of class actions, such as those involving antitrust and various kinds of civil rights, are not affected, since they have no $10,000 minimum. But the court has one other pending case on the subject, and the betting is now that...
Once he resigns, he will step smoothly into the national spotlight. Last week, with appropriate fanfare, he held the first meeting of his National Commission on Critical Choices for America, a kind of ad hoc think tank that will debate the central issues of the day. Its 40 members, all chosen by Rocky from various pursuits and from both major political parties, include Vice President Gerald Ford; Sol Linowitz, chairman of the National Urban Coalition; Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to India; Ivan Allen, former mayor of Atlanta; Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; William Paley, chairman...
Undergraduates have only a hazy notion of what the CRR actually does, and how it began. The CRR grew out of the Committee of 15, an ad hoc committee of students and faculty elected to handle about 150 cases arising out of the April 1969 occupation of University Hall. After the Faculty approved the prosecution of those cases in June 1969, it also sanctioned an interim Resolution on Rights and Responsibilites. The following fall, the Committee of 15 appointed six of its members to a temporary CRR, handed it the temporary Resolution, and told it to get to work...
Expressing "hope that the IRRC study will be totally objective and will provide all the necessary information," the Arkansas citizens' group which has spearheaded opposition to the plant announced the establishment of a Harvard ad hoc committee on the issue...