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...three faculty members and three black students. This does not give them power to appoint tenure professors, however. By long-standing Harvard practice, tenure appointments to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are made by the President and Fellows only after detailed consideration and approval by an ad hoc committee to study the merits of each proposed tenure appointee. Traditionally, the ad hoc committee, appointed by the president of the university, comprises group of non-Harvard experts in the nominee's field of scholarship and Harvard faculty members from related academic disciplines. Members of the department who make the nomination...
...Soldiers Field meeting, called by an ad hoc committee of moderate students, looked like a modernized version of Athenian democracy, set appropriately beneath the neo-Doric colonnade that rings the top of the stadium. Three microphones in the stands let the crowd reply to statements piped over loudspeakers from a moderator's table set up outside one end zone. Red-shirted tellers in the audience counted standing votes, then passed results to yellow-jerseyed section men who ran the totals to girls operating adding machines...
...This personnel committee should be composed of an equal number of faculty and student members, in recognition of the students' high degree of interest, knowledge, and competence in this emerging, and in some ways unique study. Student members should be selected by arrangement with the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students and in consultation with other interested student groups...
...been more than one year since the Ad-Hoc Committee of Black Students at Harvard and Radcliffe began negotiations with the administration concerning Afro-American Studies. On April 7, 1969, a meeting for potential concentrators in the field was held. At this meeting, a proposal by the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies was disclosed. This communique was a description of the field of concentration for next year. It has since been "rumored" that a change in the proposal of the Standing Committee has occurred. There has been no official communication with any black students concerning this change. This flagrant...
...mass meeting today is being organized and will be run by an ad hoc group of approximately 25 students that split off from the Mem Church group last Thursday...