Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CRR was not "formed by the Faculty to discipline students involved in political demonstrations," as Sandra E. Cavazos stated (February 26). CRR is empowered only to enforce the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which explicitly recognizes the right of students to engage in political activity, including demonstrations. Cavazos continues, "The CRR...has been boycotted by students since its inception after the 1969 takeover of University Hall." This is misleading both because it fails to recognize the difference between the Committee of Fifteen and CRR, and because it gives the impression that the action by Adams and South Houses...
...article by Susan C. Faludi (December 18) was welcome in that it attempted to remedy the almost total lack of knowledge among students concerning the origin, structure, and purpose of CRR. Unfortunately, it was most notable for what...
Faludi says students "have forgotten that students and faculty were not equally represented on the committee panel," but fails to mention that, largely through the efforts of students selected to sit on CRR, the composition of CRR is now set at seven faculty members and six students...
Faludi also says students have forgotten that faculty or administrators "could not be prosecuted for breaking the same rules as students." It is not clear what she had in mind, nor why it is relevant to the question of student participation on CRR. While it is true that the Faculty's CRR has jurisdiction only over complaints of students violations of the Resolution, officers of the University are not exempt from its provisions...
...complaint that CRR or the Committee of Fifteen did not allow "appeal outside of itself," it is not clear where such an appeal would reasonably be directed within the University. CRR is indeed a faculty-student, rather than administrative, committee. It is not clear to me what body would be better suited to hear cases...