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...more of that rhetoric." Whether there is a well-formulated policy of repression may be a moot question if many citizens believe it to be so and behave as if such a policy existed and if the government is carrying out activities which could be categorized as ad hoc repression. In the first few months of 1970, increasing frequency of reports concerning the snooping activities of various branches of government has lent credence to fears of a growing repressive apparatus. The disclosure that Internal Revenue Service agents have been checking cards in various libraries and the passage...
Members of the PRG claim that the proposed committees would be "ad hoc, inefficient, self-interested, and out of communication with each other and with the rest of the University...
...nine-member Faculty committee, chaired by Economics professor Henry Rosovsky, was commissioned to investigate establishing some form of Black Studies program at the University. The Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students, the negotiating arm of AAAAS, worked closely with the Faculty group during the rest of the spring and the following fall. In January of 1969, after eight months of exhaustive research, the Rosovsky Committee issued its long awaited report...
...more courses in African Studies, and an increased enrollment of blacks in the University's graduate schools-was that of the "development of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Afro-American Studies." (The wording of this specific recommendation is important to note. By a prior agreement between the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students and the Faculty Committee, the document was purposely ambiguous about what form-whether departmental or interdisciplinary-Afro-American Studies at Harvard was to assume in order to make its passage before the Faculty smoother. But the Ad Hoc Committee had made it clear to the Rosovsky...
...visibility of BITCHES and WITCHES, the heart of the movement is made up of hundreds of "rap groups," usually formed on an ad hoc basis. "Consciousness raising" is their aim: the establishment of a common understanding of the problems that women face in a male-dominated society. The usual group meets one night a week, numbers eight to twelve women, and concentrates on topics such as attitudes toward work, marriage, families, feminist history and woman's role in society. Again and again, phrases like this are heard: "I was desperate when I came to Women's Lib ... I always thought...