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...committee procedure is designed to help the President judge a candidate's qualifications and ensure that the department has checked outside the University in searching for the most eminent scholar available. The system also helps watchdog the distribution of tenure appointments among the fields within a department. Sometimes a department selects more than one name and asks the President and the ad hoc committee to choose the best person. More often, it proposes one candidate and requests his confirmation...
...that the Harvard Faculty should work to greatly increase the number of women in its ranks. Along with this resolution, the Faculty endorsed the idea of a Permanent Committee on Women which would "suggest ways of increasing the number of women on the Faculty" and also serve as a watchdog over the status of women at Harvard. In response to the Faculty move Dunlop appointed a five-member committee...
Other checks have been proposed. A citizens' review board-lawyers, judges and other experts appointed by the President-might be established as a kind of public watchdog over intelligence investigations. Or as is done with the CIA, a special congressional committee could oversee...
...conventional stories. But how is his copy to survive the uphill obstacle course posed by copy readers, editors and publishers? Some of the journalists present suggested that newsmen have some say in the editorial decisions of their papers; others advocated a national steering committee that would serve as a watchdog, criticizing the most blatant inadequacies of the press. But no one yet seems to know how newly won self-awareness on the part of the reporter can be translated into anything other than the occasional fluke of a good piece. It may be 1972, but all the news that fits...
...suddenly prominent persona. Though congenial and even gentle off the job, he adopts an almost snarling style in his frequent speechmaking and conveys rigid righteousness on paper. In his own mind he is a man with a mission; its imperatives are not to be denied. He calls himself a "watchdog on government" and says that he was "brought up with a sense of duty and a sense of outrage." He insists that the drinking or leching capers of public men do not offend him "until they affect the public business...