Word: hoc
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First, we must emphasize that we all remain committed to promoting increased minority and women faculty recruitment at Harvard. In addition, we remain committed to continuing the relationship between the Ad Hoc Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Recruitment and the Undergraduate Council, a relationship which has so far proved extremely beneficial for promoting this issue...
...rally, organized by the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC) and the Undergraduate Council's ad hoc committee on divestment, lasted close to 10 minutes...
Also interesting is an essay by D. Joseph Menn '87 describing the role of ad hoc commitees in tenure decisions, focusing on the activities of the "invisible kingmaker" in the process, Pierce Professor of Philosophy Burton S. Dreben. Menn's piece reads more like investigative journalism than a history paper, which makes for a refreshing change. (In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that Menn is the former city editor of The Crimson--the post I currenly hold. But it's still a good piece anyway...
Sean C. Griffin '90, chair of the council's ad hoc committee on security and a former candidate for council chair, said he would be surprised if any of the incumbents were challenged, especially Subramanian...
...meantime, the only national institution with authority and legitimacy is the army. While the military has promised the Front its support, the ad hoc alliance faces the task of ending civil strife and imposing law-and-order on a country flooded with weapons and a thirst for retribution. Says a Western military attache: "Proper law-and-order can be restored only when the army takes all excess weapons out of circulation. But it can do that only when it has won the confidence of the population...