Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YEAR HISTORY, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) has been the subject of much controversy. Since it was formed to discipline students involved in the April 1969 University Hall takeover, it has convene 13 times. From 1971 until it last heard a case in 1975, however, no students have sat on the committee...
...when the University is considering taking disciplinary action against students involved in two recent anti-apartheid protests, the CRR's re-assemblance is no less controversial. The University, for its part, has demonstrated a lack of concern for student participation by of the committee so soon after the two recent incidents, leaving students almost no time to reach a consensus on continuing the boycott. Yet such refusal by students to join would be unwise, unpragmatic, and pointless...
This is not to say, however, that the CRR should be condoned. Students have raised serious and legitimate objections to the committee and its proceedings included in these objections...
...that it is unclear whether the guidelines of the CRR permit the sue of hearsay evidence--as well as what constitutes hearsay evidence--in student prosecutions...
Nonetheless, reforms of these problems can only be achieved if students join the committee. In 1978, members of the freshman class temporarily lifted the boycott in order to push for reforms in the CRR. These students made some gains--including public transcripts and an equal student-Faculty balance on the committee. It is time for the classes of '86-'88 to pick up where the class of '81 left...