Word: besvinick
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...students involved in drawing up the original reforms in 1977 did not. Laura S. Besvinick '80, who was one of four students on the CRR in 1977 and member of the first class to break the boycott, said yesterday the final CRR legislation, which passed the Faculty Council last December, is a sadly diluted version of their earlier package of reforms. The Council vetoed the recommended reforms to bar hearsay evidence from CRR hearings and to create an appeals board. The Council did agree to eliminate legal counsel at hearings and to set up guidelines for release of taped transcripts...
...Besvinick said only the reform establishing a more balanced student-faculty ratio on the committee actually helps students. The legislation provides for six student and six Faculty seats, plus an additional Faculty member who will preside as chairman and cast the deciding vote in case of a tie. Previous membership rules required eight Faculty members and six students...
Such optimism leaves students like Besvinick, who have long followed the debates over CRR reforms, bewildered over the clarity of their classmates' vision. She said "It's as if students are becoming more and more unable to see when something is wrong...
...Laura E. Besvinick '80 and Tim Sellers '80, two of the students urging a CRR boycott, agreed to serve on the CRR and attempt to reform the committee after freshmen voted to break a decade-long boycott of the body two years...
...Besvinick, who is chairman of the Student Assembly's committee on students' rights, and Sellers, who also serves on the assembly committee, said the two-year effort to reform the CRR has not succeeded entirely...