Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases of students who were dismissed, the CRR had lined up witnesses as well as photographic evidence. These witnesses were usually the same deans whom the students had allegedly harassed, former faculty members of CRR concede...
...Faculty CRR members reject student charges that the committee targeted the political leadership of SDS, rather than uniformly assigning penalties to undergraduates on the basis of the actual rules they broke. "No, there is no truth to this," Wilson says. "They said this at the time; they said the CRR was targeting certain people. They said that to me as they threatened me [as he walked into the CRR hearings]. But to this day, I don't know who the officers of SDS were...
Roger Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, was hesitant about discussing his past association with that disciplinary body: "Ah, yes, I guess. What does CRR stand for again?" At the time, Rosenblatt says he remembers thinking that the University should not have to resort to such a quasi-legal, formalized process...
Judging from his experience on the CRR, Wilson concludes that student members can contribute in "constructive" ways, but he also remembers that the students who served in 1969 and the early '70s were under sometimes unbearable pressures from other students...
...were to give my personal advice, it would be, don't join the CRR. Their [the students'] lives were made miserable. When it was done for me, I went home; they had to face the students in the dorm." Wilson recalls that one student on the Committee of Fifteen placed himself in the care of University Health Services for psychological trauma, which Wilson says was caused by ostracism from fellow students. Rosenblatt concurs: "They were seen as a kind of ghetto police...