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...THIRD recommendation is simply a strong endorsement of a policy only recently announced by the Dean of the Faculty: that department chairmen should provide ad hoc committees on permanent appointments with "evidence that consideration was given to women... by including in the materials they submit the names received and the steps taken to ascertain potential candidates...." We regard this as an absolutely crucial enforcement mechanism and would suggest that when the evidence submitted is unsatisfactory, ad hoe committees should themselves take an active role in trying to ascertain whether there are qualified women candidates for the open position...
Some ethicists and scientists argue that the worries, the plans and the proposals are premature, that ethics has always been an ad hoc thing, dealing with the world as it is, not as it might be in the future. Given the enormousness of the new problems and the speed of change, that attitude may be a luxury...
Vague Deal. The initial attacks on the Whitney's show were, ironically enough from the museum's viewpoint, spearheaded by the group that provoked the exhibition in the first place-the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, an ad hoc committee chaired by Artists Benny Andrews and Cliff Joseph. The B.E.C.C. was originally formed to protest against the racism of the Metropolitan's "Harlem on My Mind," and now claims 150 black artist members. In 1969 it met with Whitney officials to demand a full-scale survey of living black artists...
...foist upon the student body the present election procedures for students? It didn't; the CRR neither made up nor sought to "popularize" the present procedures. Instead, they were drawn up by an ad hoc committee (half student, half faculty) under the auspices of the Faculty Council, on student initiative, and accepted by the Faculty...
...wanted to mention discipline, not just mentioning free speech because anyone would sign a free speech petition," said William Selfidge '73. He said the ad hoc committee consists of "some Young Republicans, a McCarthy Democrat, and a few apathetic people." Selfidge said that the committee had gathered almost 400 signatures after...