Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like myself had the dubious privilege of being here at the time of its formation in the hope, of course, of winning a new convert for the boycott, and thus perhaps helping to avert a tragic repudiation of student activism in the sixties such as acceptance of the CRR would represent. I was quite surprised at the turn the conversation took, for the freshman, rather than being simply a naive tool of the wool-pulling administration, was repeatedly asking an extremely valid question. Why, she asked, is this thing still going on? The boycott, she pointed out, has not resolved...
...been easy enough in the past to hold Dean Epps responsible for this continuation, but it now seems that he is as bored with the matter as anyone else. The CRR never meets, he says, but "it was established by Faculty legislation and it has never been abolished, so I don't think we have any choice." Provided with a hint like this, that Dean Epps is just doing his job and might indeed have had it otherwise if the choice were up to him, I believe the time has come to discuss seriously with the Faculty the solution which...
...packed meeting of the Adams House Committee last night unanimously voted to set aside its original vote to break a ten-year student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) and, instead, to hold a House referendum on whether to send representatives to the disciplining body...
...House Committee will also attempt to launch a University-wide student investigation of the CRR, the review board created in 1969 to discipline students involved in political demonstrations, and work with students in other Houses to establish a united undergraduate stand on CRR...
...various deans who struggle each year to bring students into CRR might have received the message, and given up. The continuing effort to keep CRR alive by artificial means--it has not met since 1975--shows only that administrators want to be prepared to discipline tomorrow's protesters, whoever they may be and wherever they may crop up. The only ally the administration has in the CRR debate is ignorance, and the only battles it wins are against the uninformed. As long as students remember the events of 1969, or can educate themselves, the boycott will continue. And maybe some...