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...from a blanket, hard-sell promotion (including phone calls to every parish in the country). Some of it is also a response to the unyielding ideology of Jesuit Editor Daniel Lyons, who would have the U.S. blockade Haiphong and send Nationalist Chinese troops to Viet Nam. While an ad hoc committee of bishops was working to resolve the California table-grape strike, Lyons castigated both the bishops and the strikers. On matters of doctrine Twin Circle has supported the Pope vociferously, and has reflected traditionalist misgivings about innovations in the Church. Recently it warned darkly of "theological abuses" that might...
...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 Rosevsky 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...
...hoc group of graduating seniors will stage an alternative commencement program Thursday as a reaction against the "business as usual" exercises in the Tercentenary Theatre. The "second commencement" activities will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the yard between Eliot House and the Indoor Athletic Building-a half hour after the opening of the traditional ceremony...
...committee felt cut adrift. It had interpreted the four demands passed at the original mass meeting, the same meeting that had brought the committee into being, as a sort of ad hoc constitution, the whole reason for its existence. It saw the measures passed at the last mass meeting as shackles that would prevent dealing with the demands in any way but verbal masturbation. So it published its intention to "disregard any directives that undermine our original mandate," i.e., the implementation of the four demands...