Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike most students disciplined by CRR, Janet Wheeler '70 decided to show up for her first hearing. But after one round in Meeting Room K, she decided she had had enough. "It was a fairly unpleasant and frightening experience," she says today. After she attended several rallies and received five summonses to come to more hearings, the committee suspended her--two days before Commencement...
Wheeler and her tutor, who was acting as her lawyer, were guided through several locked doors before entering the pent-house board room of CRR. The proceedings that followed, she says, "confirmed what everybody else had been saying about CRR--that it was a kangaroo court." She sat before a panel of committee members, the table between them covered with photographs...
After that one encounter with the CRR, she had no desire to return. So it wasn't until later that she heard from her tutor--who attended one of her later hearings--that Wheeler's cousin, a graduate student resident adviser, had testified against...
...demonstration outside Holyoke Center that Wheeler participated in later in the spring, sealed her fate. The protesters were wearing paper bags with Dean Ernest R. May's face sketched on the front. May began walking up to students and lifting masks, including hers, Wheeler recalls. The CRR subsequently suspended...
...years later, when she had given up on social work and wound up teaching in the Boston public school system, she received a letter from the CRR. It said the University might grant her a degree if she wrote them a letter, outlining in detail her activities since leaving Harvard and showing the CRR that she had been conducting herself in a way that indicated "good character." She did, and received her degree...