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Students in Adams, Kirkland and South Houses have formed an ad hoc committee to protest the manner in which undergraduates would be appointed to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...
...disciplines. Similarly, the report called on the Faculty to use joint appointments between Afro-American Studies and established departments to attract new professors. The Review Committee also recommended deferring a graduate program until the undergraduate one is better developed. It advised that new Faculty appointments be made by ad hoc faculty committees, not the Afro-American Studies Department's executive committee. The report suggested administering the proposed DuBois research institute on Afro-American affairs on a University-wide basis. Most importantly, the Review Committee report called for Guinier's ouster, by the end of the spring term, if possible...
...perspective of the disgruntled citizen, the value of Who Runs Congress is questionable. The suggestions which emerge from the morass of data are scarcely novel; many are either unworkable or inefficient. To combat "organized special interests," the authors recommend tighter lobby disclosure laws as well as more ad hoc coverage, such as television documentaries, press coverage and citizen investigations. While informative, these methods of surveillance won't prevent influence-peddling either through front doors or under restaurant tables. For breaking the executive monopoly on information, a problem reiterated throughout the report, Green, Fallows and Zwick offer no advice...
...discussion, which was sponsored by the Student Center ad hoc committee, was held in response to the alternatives for the CRR that Dean Dunlop proposed at the last CRR meeting...
More important than the actual details I have sketched are the principles that would be embodied in such an undergraduate union. Student group efforts in areas of social change would be persistent and well-organized rather than ad hoc and diffuse. Opinions expressed by student representatives would be based on systematic consultation with the students. No one in any House would be denied participation in an aspect of University life because he or she is not that House's one representative to a privileged committee. Finally, the students who don't usually "believe in" University politics, who are apathetic...