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...that they are self-defining elites. The men who compose the English Department look for Richard Ellmann, the Sociology Department takes Christopher Jencks, and the Economics Department rejects Samuel Bowles, and in each case the department measures the potential member against its own standard. The controls outside ad hoc committees actually exert over tenured appointments are initially not very impressive, and become less so when their membership is considered. Ad hoc committees consist of non-Harvard leading scholars in the field, and Harvard's experts aren't likely to differ markedly with fraternal outsiders...
Equal numbers of students and Faculty must serve on the Commission. The Commission should assign ad hoc student groups to study grievances that come before it. There must be some guarantee, in principle at least, that the recommendations of the Commission will be implemented in policy. The Commission must deal with "grievances" in the broadest sense, including questions of Administration or departmental unresponsiveness on issues of financial or educational policy...
...superintendent's action resulted in a prisoners' work strike and the involvement of the ad hoc committee, which comprises several Boston-area groups including the Black Caucus...
...meetings with men, but you never spend any time with women. You don't know anything about women! And that's the problem!" Thus an angry law student recently berated University of Michigan President Robben Fleming. Lest Fleming miss the point, a woman representing the "Ad Hoc Committee Concerned That President Fleming Does Not Meet with Women" sat outside the president's office for a week, earnestly recording the sex and other vital statistics of his predominantly male visitors...
...suit...balding...somewhat out of condition...either ignoring the secretaries or flirting with them, exhibiting an air of self-confidence and likely to remove his coat at some point of the meeting." Such lampoonery, explains Pringle Smith, editor of the business school magazine and a member of the ad hoc committee, is an unexpected result of continued discrimination. "A lot of bright women are in dull, repetitive jobs here, so they spend their spare time thinking up creative things." Among the things is a framed flower-bedecked watercolor sign reading TAKE A WOMAN TO LUNCH. It was a gift...