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...Hoc' Program...
While contributing to studies of interest to the Institute, the associates will work with the faculty and undergraduate groups who are concerned with their particular fields. John G. Wofford, Associate Director of the Institute, emphasized the "ad hoc" nature of the plan and commented that "no single decision as to their function has been made yet. Their affiliation to the Institute will be of a very flexible nature," he said. Gardner added that the initiative for the experts to appear before students will have to come from the undergraduates themselves...
...student's program couldn't be fit into any department, but was judged to have academic merit, Dean Ford or the CEP would set up an ad hoc Committee on degrees--effectively allowing the student to create his own major...
...lest other voices be mistaken for the majority sentiment." The implication--that those who are deeply dissatisfied with American policies in Asia are only a minority--is clearly untrue, at least in this part of the academic community; to prove it untrue was precisely the purpose of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam. We find it ironic that Professor Reischauer should be endorsing such statements in one place while attempting to disprove them in another. Besides, even if the contention were true, repeating it would not contribute much to the public dialogue: as even the eminently moderate New York Times...
...Member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam...