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Communications between prisoners and the administration of Walpole State Prison have virtually broken down, the Ad Hoc Committee On Prison Reform, which coordinates the Walpole State Prison Citizen Observer Program, reported Tuesday...
...with housing problems is the result of "a tradition of not setting policy the way General Motors does, therefore it [Harvard] tends not to set priorities. If you're going to set priorities, you've got to make policies." Whitlock continues to point out that "because we make ad hoc decisions, no one can tell what the total effect [of the 2.5 to 1 ratio plan] is going to be on the size of the College...
...Revolution. When Gaddafi launched it, he noted that Libya's legal code was mostly the product of "Italian and British imperialism." Since it would take years to draft a new code, he suspended all existing laws and authorized the people's committees to proceed on an ad hoc basis, governed only by "the full precepts of justice, the commandments of Islam and the interests of the people." The committees have gone on a witch-hunting, book-burning binge, aimed at restoring Libya to Islamic purity...
...topflight clinician and, in Harvard tradition, the best scholar available. McClelland gave up his attempt to find a person who would satisfy the professional requirements of the American Psychologyical Association (APA) and the NIMH and also the academic requirements of the Social Relations Department and the President's ad hoc committee...
...order to resolve the host of problems plaguing CP3, Rowe finally requested that the review by an ad hoc committee which was scheduled for 1974 be held instead in Fall 1972. After an intensive study of CP3 the committee recommended in its report to President Bok that the University either increase its commitment to the program and restructure it by placing it in one school with interdisciplinary ties, or drop the program altogether. Unexpectedly, Bok chose to drop it. Unwilling to increase University support for an historically unstable program, Bok placed a moratorium on admissions to CP3, effectively killing...