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Humphrey, for all his determined scuffing pointed toward blocking McGovern's nomination, has been unsettled by his inability to establish a firm anti-McGovern coalition. His aides still say privately that Muskie is the weakest link in the ad hoc movement; they have also become leary of the wavering Black Bloc votes...
...says the Green Committee, an ad hoc group of regular Harvard students, faculty, administrators and Cambridge residents, who installed window boxes in Thayer in February as part of an overall beautification project...
...Department recommended by a split vote that Stern be hired. The ad hoc committee was unimpressed, however, and President Pusey rejected the appointment...
...promotions to proceed on purely objective, academic criteria. What is alarming about the present system is not the latitude it permits for personal considerations. Rather, it is the system's premises. The University should be a place for teaching as well as for research. When a department or ad hoc committee is considering a man's record, his teaching ability is not the primary concern. Because departments at Harvard initiate appointments, the criteria for selection tend to be especially technical and book-oriented. At smaller colleges, the president usually directs the entire procedure and pays more attention to a candidate...
Other than organizing itself, the Permanent Committee has focused primarily on the matter of hiring non-tenured faculty. At present, ad hoc committees considering permanent appointments are required to present evidence that consideration was given to women and minority group members. But there is no similar step in the process of appointing junior faculty. To remedy this situation, the Permanent Committee has drawn up recommendations for a standing committee which would review non-tenured appointments before they were made. Some such procedure for reviewing the departmental selection of junior faculty is vitally needed, but while it is being formed...