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...students' presentation, prepared by an anonymous group which calls itself "the ad hoc committee," was -- according to one of its coordinators -- a "completely new approach" to the Visiting Committee. In the past, a few representatives from the now-defunct student council discussed "short-term gripes" about specific courses and professors...
...Harvard, Vern Countryman and several other Law School professors asked the University to take all possible legal steps to keep the lists from falling into HUAC's hands. Gilbert Gale '69, head of an ad hoc committee to abolish HUAC, wrote a letter to President Pusey asking him to make a public statement on the University's policy toward a possible subpoena...
Last year the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan both give membership lists of anti-war groups to HUAC when they were subpoenaed. The administrations of both universities, in addition, gave the students called to testify no warning of what might happen. An ad hoc committee at Harvard is afraid the same thing could happen here. The committee wants to prevent this and has asked the University to make a statement refusing to surrender such lists in the event of a HUAC subpoena. President Pusey and the Corporation should agree...
What he seems to have done, however, is construct an informal, ad hoc framework to get things done...
...executive committee of Young Dems voted Monday night to table a motion supporting the letter to Pusey. The officers apparently overrode the wishes of their president Harlon L. Dalton '69, a member of the ad hoc committee...