Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SINCE THE UNIVERSITY pulled the rusty old Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) out of the shed last spring to discipline a handful of anti-apartheid protesters, a lot of things have changed at Harvard...
Many of the activists whose Harvard careers rest in the CRR's hands have moved on to other causes, like Medicare leaving South Africa far behind. They've begun setting up individual retirement accounts, buying extrastrength Polident, developing varicose veins and taking Doan's pills. Some--those four protesters who were to have graduated some time long, long ago--are sitting home in rocking chairs as their diplomas wither and yellow back in University Hall...
...seven professors who form the CRR are to be applauded for their cautious and conscientious approach to their task of disciplining students. It is a noble, and correct, impulse to value justice over expediency. But disregard for expediency can go only...
...CRR ITSELF--perennial questions of legitimacy aside--has proven, even by administrators' reckoning, inefficient. This is partially because professors appointed to the committee in the last few years probably didn't spent a whole lot of time pondering their roles as disciplinarians. They were busy teaching students, not judging their extracurricular activitics. The CRR, in fact, had not been asked to hear a case for more than a decade, and now of the current members had sat on the committee then or before...
...when the nearly forgotten CRR was unexpectedly revived, there were a new little matters to be resolved...