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Curran called for improved methods of handling political murders because "we cannot have a Warren Commission to conduct ad hoc reviews of every political killing...
...ultimate Harvard committee-the ad hoc Committee on Death-has come under fire from philosophers and theologians...
...HIRING AND PROMOTION POLICIES: Ad Hoc committees that recommend Faculty appointments should weigh teaching ability and commitment more heavily in making their judgments. Junior faculty members must not be penalized for demonstrating a solid commitment to undergraduate education. We recommend that the students on the departmental Committees on Undergraduate Instruction be consulted by the members of adhoc committees...
...series of oil tanker leaks covers the Atlantic with shiny black slime. The sun is reflected off this surface, causing a tremendous heat wave in which the average temperature in Cambridge is 140 degrees. The Ad Hoc Committee on The Weather finds the heat to be a "social" and not an "academic" issue, and Harvard refuses to get involved until the Holyoke Center air conditioning fails. Meeting in emergency session, the Faculty votes to allow people to eat in the Faculty Club without coats and ties. After the meeting, George Wald calls reporters into his test tube to applaud...
...point headline in the newly revised University Gazette-Enquirer concerning: "What Ernie May Told Barbara Solomon About Doris Kearns and Alan Heimert!" The article concerns May's announcement that Kearns and Heimert have been reappointed to the Temporary Ad Hoc Committee on Capital Punishment, Faculty Reorganization, Coed Living and Curriculum Reform...