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...women who do appear are simple farm laborers gathering up a potato crop. In rigid lines and soulless silence, they move forward, whisking loose dirt from the potatoes and tossing them into baskets. They are harrowing illustrations from Edwin Markham's The Man with the Hoe: "Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop...
Officials, however, are not simply playing wait-and-see with the recruitment issue, which will likely become far more clear when Litback's report comes out within the next couple of weeks. The ad hoe athletics committee of the American Council on Education (ACE)--the Bok-chaired group which proposed the test and grade reform--last week divided into five subcommittees, including one which will look at recruitment and enforcement of recruiting measures. University of California at Los Angeles Chancellor Charles E. Young expects the ACE to have a recruiting proposal ready by November. "I believe there's a general...
...wish to respond to Laura Wharton's letter of November 6. Ms. Wharton states that last weekend's conference on the Middle East, sponsored by an ad-hoe group of students calling themselves the Middle East Education Project (MEEP), was designed to be, at least in part, a forum for the views of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Her evidence? The shocking fact that three of the seven people present at the first meeting of MEEP were active...
...Epps is typical, the meeting provided deans an opportunity to look at their roles with rare candor. They had done their homework: Two years of planning and a year-long survey on stress of more than 3000 college students preceded the conference. The College Task Force, an ad hoe committee of 11 New England college deans sponsored by the Boston-Area Medical Foundation, has met monthly since the fall of 1979 to discuss how best to understand and respond to alcohol and drug abuse, and with this conference is moving to wrestle with questions of stress in general...
...candidate for tenure, and the elaborate mechanism the University has for meeting these standards. To gain tenure, a scholar must be rated highly in a survey of specialists outside Harvard recommended by a majority of the department with the vacancy, and approved by President Bok, who consults an ad hoe committee of scholars from Harvard and other universities...