Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emergency meeting of the Winthrop House Committee, several students raised issues which cloud the recent convening of the committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR): (1) the validity of the committee as a body separate from, but empowered equally to the Administrative Board; (2) the election of members and the appropriateness of students serving on the committee; (3) the validity of the committee conceptually; and (4) the operation of the committee and the violations of students' natural rights as citizens of this country...
Hoppenstein said he is confident that the CRR can reach a fair verdict without his testimony. He added that his account would agree with previously published accounts of the incident...
...CRR, a Vietnam War-era disciplinary body that had Jain Jorman since 1975, was revived at the height of campus anti-apartheid protests across the country this spring to hear the cases of some 18 students involved in both the Lowell House blockade and another earlier anti-apartheid sit-in at the office of Harvard's governing boards...
Although students are intended to constitute half of the 13-member committee, they boycotted the CRR almost since its inception in 1969 until 1980, when the College stopped inviting them to serve. Students then and now have charged that the committee can punish student protesters for political dissent without appeal to a higher body...
...committee is not expected to reach a verdict in either incident until late September, despite early hopes that it could finish before Harvard's June 6 Commencement. The diplomas of three seniors charged are being withheld pending the CRR's decision.RICHARD E. KRONAUER: Chairman of the CRR...