Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS and Responsibilities (CRR) has finally issued its report on student protests at 17 Quincy Street and Lowell House last April, and it is no surprise that student activists are calling the report "a whitewash." The committee was ill-conceived and illegitimate to begin with. Moreover, the committee simply has not fufilled the mission it was charged with by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence when he asked it last spring "to investigate thoroughly, openly, and fairly the specific circumstances of these two incidents to ensure that there is widespread and accurate knowledge of what happened...
Though the College invited students to serve on the CRR when it was reconstituted this past spring, students again refused, citing time constraints during what was then exam period...
...CRR also allows students to serve as voting members, and permits defendants to represent themselves before the committee. However, house committees have refused to send students to sit on the CRR almost continuously since 1969, claiming that the committee could punish students for their political beliefs without appeal to a higher body...
...CRR is intended to be composed of six faculty members, six randomly chosen student delegates and one faculty chairman who votes only in the case of a tie. But because students have refused to serve on the CRR, it is empowered to proceed without them...
Last May, the Faculty Council revived the CRR--which had not heard a case since 1975--to decide discipline for 18 students involved in two spring anti-apartheid protests that highlighted the recent escalation of activist on campus...