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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever tolerance the CRR may have had initially, whatever desire it may have had to consider the broad context of complaints- these notions were soon exhausted. The hearing panels were concerned with finding out one thing- were you there? Questions about the righteousness of your cause and extenuating circumstances became, in legal terminology, irrelevant and immaterial. It is important to stress this. The CRR was not a commission of inquiry or a blue-ribbon investigating panel. It was simply a disciplinary board, and its title, Committee of Rights and Responsibilities, was a misnomer. The Committee was not concerned with anyone...
...Committee not by and large previously associated with the case and without student members as yet, the Committee will be very loathe to consider subtle points of interpretation and evaluation of the significance of facts which have already been considered quite exhaustively by the previous Committee in the context of the whole set of events and cases surrounding this incident...
...Committee members- derive from experiences the CRR has had during the past term. Readmission's cases interest few people. Judging whether to let someone back into Harvard is much less dramatic than deciding whether to kick him out. And while disciplinary hearings usually take place in a political context, right after the event in question has occurred, readmission's cases come up over six months later, when time has faded the incidents and issues into history. But the readmission's cases are important. They do more than discomfort the individuals involved; they also indicate the nature...
...justified its outright denial of all parts of this appeal with a paradigmatic example of that Jeremy Bentham, in a different context, called "nonsense on stilts." As for Cox's assertion that the CRR's procedures denied a full hearing, the Committee readily agreed-but instead of finding this grounds for sustaining his appeal, the Committee used it as an excuse to apologize. I quote from the CRR's reply...
...dull jokes and politely listens to his college adviser. Nevertheless, he speaks for ambivalent, marijuana-struck youth when he wryly observes the machinelike aspects of civilization and objects to the meaninglessness of a life in which people become what they are "least afraid of becoming." Given such a context, Peter calculates that pot, with all its drawbacks, provides a means of honest and pleasurable rebellion and escape...