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Second, Curle and Whitten continued, many Ed School courses were lacking in "relevance" -- a dainty way of saying that the school was not paying enough attention to studying urban problems or preparing its graduates to teach in urban schools. The report recommended that an ad hoc committee begin formulating a new program of urban studies, and further, that the school establish a new "criterion of intellectual vigor." Specifically, the authors felt that students interested in field work should be encouraged to work with community educational agencies and other educational groups and should be given credit and supervision. Professors had long...
...seven--most of whom are resisters themselves--acted as an "ad hoc group" representing the students of Harvard Divinity School...
...name of the program is Night Call, and it is carried live (11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., E.D.T.) five evenings a week on an ad hoc chain that has grown from 21 to 57 radio stations in less than three months. Listeners anywhere may phone collect (Area Code 212: 749-3311) and argue racial issues with an influential national figure who is guest of the night, say James Baldwin, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Muhammad All, Sargent Shriver or Arthur Miller...
...Beecher asked Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School, to sponsor the Ad Hoc Committee to Examine the Definition of Brain Death. Testifying before a Senate investigation into scientific research on humans increased Beecher's feeling that such a committee was necessary...
...hoc group, calling itself the International Witnesses Against Genocide, has called a meeting for 6 p.m. tonight in Phillips Brooks House. The Witnesses will be asking people around the nation, and, they hope, around the world, to wear a black star with the word IBO in it, as a reminder of the yellow star "once imposed upon the victims of another 'final solution'" of the Nazis. Ibo is the name of a Biafran tribe...