Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, the professors needed to be reminded that they were on the CRR. Then they had to meet each other. Then, as a group of scholars, they had to tackle the responsibility of reconstituting the body, deciding its procedures, scheduling hearings for the protesters and proceeding as a collective inquisitor, judge and jury...
...matter was further complicated when upperclass houses--which were asked to get together and nominate six students to the CRR--refused even to discuss the matter, and when student protesters said they would not defend themselves before the body...
Since the CRR began what has turned into a five-month saga, other disciplinary bodies have judged and levied decisions for cases involving their students in one incident. It took the Law School's Administrative Board three weeks to give 10 law students official slaps on the wrist for their participation in a sit-in last April. The Graduate School of Education quietly took care of one student in much the same manner last spring...
BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY allows each of its schools autonomy over disciplinary proceedings, the CRR appears to have found itself in quite a bind...
...students and undergraduates were charged with violating the same University rules at the same April 24 protest. If the Law School has already ruled that its students deserve warnings, one might wonder how the CRR could decide anything else. Any other ruling could potentially undermine the credibility of both bodies, to say nothing of evoking protests of unequal treatment from students...