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...date, the Hiroshima World Friendship Center, an organization of Japanese and American pacifists, protested that this was the anniversary of the first A-bomb raid. Luci's rumored reaction may be apocryphal, but it is not atypical: "O.K., how about December 7?" Another outfit, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee for the August 6 Protest Against the War in Viet Nam, announced its intention to picket the National Shrine and the White House throughout the wedding celebration...
David M. Forman '69, one of the leaders of the ad hoc committee which or ganized the petition drive, said last night that the response was "very encouraging...
...priest consultors (previously all members had been appointed by the archbishop). By the same token, Cody is something of an authoritarian; both his priests and his parishioners complain that his communications, far from being two-way, consist of his sending the word on down. Last month an ad hoc committee organized three meetings attended by 400 Chicago clerics, recommended that priests have a greater share in formation of archdiocesan policy and that assignment procedures be revised. In effect, the committee formed the closest thing yet to a union of priests...
...student testimony in decisions of tenure. But they went on record as favoring some form of student evaluation of teachers' classroom performance. And they called for the creation of more effective machinery to transmit criticism from students to administrators and Department chairmen. They even suggested the establishment of "ad hoc courses"--seminars on topics such as Vietnam, which would be determined at the beginning of each term--to build the teach-in into the normal curriculum...
...students, who are organizing ad hoc committees to deal with particular issues, criticized the Ed School's overemphasis on suburban schools, its poor balance between theory and practice, and its inadequate preparation of teachers for conditions in schools...