Word: crr
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Most Harvard officials won't talk about it. Somewhat embarrassing, especially because it had to be revived after 10 years of dormancy, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) has been the subject of many Harvard demonstrations and dinner-table discussions during the month of May. Though many debate its role in the University, the CRR is a moot court created mainly to punish political protesters...
Responding to these protests, the University reactivated the CRR. So far, charges to go before the court have been filed against 18 students who participated in the two activities. Three seniors will not get diplomas until their cases are heard by the CRR. The committee theoretically requires six students to serve on it, but undergraduates have refused to sit on the body...
Unfortunately, the CRR, because it can only act against students and has been used only selectively, does not have the credibility to serve as the body preserving free speech. The Faculty and the University failed to call the CRR when in 1983 students heckled Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger '38 and pelted him with tomatoes and eggs. The Faculty failed to call the CRR in 1978 when students shut down University Hall...
...University deserves a credible body which enforces the freedoms of all community members--including sexual harassment victims--with all the due process accorded those accused in the U.S. penal system. The CRR falls woefully short of these ideals on all counts...
Meanwhile, the administration has deftly managed to deflect community attention away from the root problem of this spring's unrest: the University's investments. We hope the CRR will quickly be abandoned, that the University will discipline the students fairly, and that we can resume our fight to convince Harvard that divestment is the best political and moral recourse...