Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From what Harris could make out, the CRR seemed to operate on two levels. On the surface, Harris says, it simply matched the penalty with the offense. But beneath that, the CRR--or rather the administration behind it--seemed to single out the recognized SDS leaders. Of the 400 demonstrators in University Hall, they alone got slapped with the dismissals and suspensions. "In theory," Harris says, "you had broken a rule and therefore had to be expelled. But in practice, they didn't care about the rules...
...including a few more liberal-minded Faculty members on CRR--Harris points to Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government--the CRR seemed to represent a broader spectrum of opinion in the community than it actually did. "The self-styled liberals gave the cover of legitimacy to a McCarthy-style political repression," Harris says...
...news that Harvard students might break the CRR boycott hurts. "It's a slap in the face to all of us who fought something that we thought was important," he says...
...most part Berlow did not spend much time thinking about the CRR, because its goal--the preservation of correct and respectful behavior--seemed irrelevant in light of events in the world outside. "The war," he concluded then and concludes now, "was a hell of a lot more important than behaving in a gentlemanly manner...
Speaking in favor of continuing the boycott, Liberman describes placing students on the CRR as a way of "getting students to do it to themselves." The only students who he can imagine wanting to sit on the CRR, he says, are those interested "in the kind of experience they can put on their resume...