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...Rauch said that any member of the Harvard community can join the council's ad hoc committee on structuring. "In fact, the chairperson of that committee is not a council member," Rauch said...
...volatile mix of biology, politics, economics and morality. For 17 years the Endangered Species Act has provided a "911" distress line for life forms teetering on the edge. But its species-by-species approach does little to avert conflict. Man cannot manage nature through a series of ad hoc rescue attempts, ignoring the underlying causes for the loss of biodiversity. The answer is not to dilute the Endangered Species Act but to better anticipate the consequences of human activity, focusing on entire ecosystems rather than on single species. By the time a creature joins the endangered list...
Jeffrey, who is the chair of the council's ad hoc committee on divestment, successfully urged members not to mention the voter turnout in the report's summary, arguing that doing so would weaken the council's pro-divestment stand...
...hoc committees dominated the council's other business last night as well. At the request of the ad hoc committee on the president's search, the council voted to endorse a rally calling for greater student involvement in the search...
...campaign, Hornstein called for the abolition of the council's political ad hoc committees, and urged a council move towards offering new suggestions for solving student problems within faculty committees...