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Dates: during 1990-1990
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This morning, members of an Undergraduate Council ad hoc committee will host a forum on minority and women faculty hiring at Harvard. But the ad hoc committee members will be acting without the official endorsement of the council itself...
Historically, the council has strongly supported the cause of faculty diversity. But the debate over this particular event was overshadowed by an even deeper debate over the accountability of ad hoc committees to the council...
Members of the ad hoc committee on minority and women faculty hiring, then headed by Lucy H. Koh '90, said they wanted the lecture to conflict because it would make a symbolic statement. Several council members, however, were reluctant to endorse the conflict...
...council formally convenes each ad hoc committee to deal with a specific issue, and students volunteer to be members. Traditionally, the council has almost unanimously supported the resolutions put forward by the committees. This has been particularly true for the minority and women faculty hiring committee...
...many council members said the ad hoc committees must remember that they are ultimately responsible to the council. That's why several council members were disappointed that the council did not flatly endorse the 2 p.m. lecture time, just to make that message clear...