Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only problem with this definition, of course, is that those "causes" which the CRR considers "political"-and therefore avoids like death-are frequently cases of administrative duplicity. This was the case both times Cox was punished...
...Cox was never charged with obstructing a Harvard official. Rather the catch-all charge of "actively participating in an obstructive demonstration" was brought against him. This was in accord with one of the CRR's ground-rules for dealing with the massive picket lines last May; it declared that everyone who could be identified as present on the day of an obstructive demonstration was guilty of "actively participating" in the obstruction even though the obstruction may, in fact, have taken place later or earlier. (One student was punished for briefly standing on the picket line as he talked...
...June 2nd, nine days before he was to graduate, the CRR "regretted" to inform Bob Cox that he could not graduate and must withdraw from Harvard for one year...
...Cox's appeal argued that he had been denied a "full and fair" hearing before the CRR both times it punished him (in May 1970 and the year before). Sine Cox could not bring before the CRR charges against the Corporation for its intransigence inregard to student and faculty resolutions on ROTC, and since he could not bring charges against, or even force to testify at his hearing, any of the men who were denying Harvard workers the right to strike, he argued that he was getting less than a full and fair hearing. Evidence which might have demonstrated extenuating...
...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 to Cox...