Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following 18 students faced charges from the CRR for their involvement in two spring anti-apartheid protests--the April 24 sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing boards and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The CRR yesterday served 10 students with a suspended requirement to withdraw from the University for their actions at Lowell House, and formally admonshed the 11 students charged with participation in the 17 Quincy St. sit-in. NAME PUNISHMENT Anthony A. Ball '86 Admonition for 17 Quincy; Suspended Requirement...
...height of student Vietnam War protests, Harvard in 1969 created the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) to discipline students violating the faculty's resolution upholding individual freedoms and obligations, like freedom of speech and movement...
...CRR is completely distinct from the Administrative Board, the College's traditional disciplinary body, made up of senior tutors and deans. The CRR sets its own procedures and has its own sets of punishments--all of which it can levy independently, except for those of dismissal and expulsion, both of which require a vote of the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...CRR might well find from its own independent investigations that the 11 undergraduate and GSAS activists involved in the sit-in also deserve warnings. But because the Law School Ad Board has set a precedent, who can know for sure how independent that decision truly...
...unfortunate that five months of CRR deliberations might have been rendered superfluous because the Law School Ad Board moved more swiftly. It is more unfortunate that Harvard's disciplinary system is structured such that objective decisions could, in theory, be compromised for consistency's sake...