Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only disciplinary body in which students can actively participate. Yet throughout the 1970s House committees boycotted the CRR charging that it could punish students for their political beliefs without appeal to a higher body...
UNLIKE A COURT of law, the CRR allows no right of appeal to a higher tribunal, has no established body of precedent to ensure fair punishment, may allow unsubstantiated hearsay evidence, and is used only to prosecute alleged abuses by students. Although apologists say the Ad Board is unable to handle cases involving hundreds of students, the CRR has never shown itself able to serve justice to any more than the most visible students...
Norris is not magnetic; he does not even have the freak appeal of Mr. T. His / popularity, all in all, is curious. The hard-core audience does appreciate his athletic bona fides. Also, says Code of Silence Producer Raymond Wagner, "he's an enormously nice human being, and that can be sensed on the screen." Norris indeed seems like a nice guy: married for 26 years, doting father of two loving sons, loyal to his friends. "The character I want to build," he said last week during the filming of Invasion U.S.A., "is a man who believes in the right...
...that it denies students the right to appeal their cases...
...Board--like the CRR--has authority to uphold the RRR and to levy the same range of punishments against students. But the Ad Board, unlike the CRR, takes these measures without student input, does not allow students (except on an appeal) to appear in person before it to defend their actions, and does not have the same ability to handle mass offenses...