Word: crr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argue further that the council was "captured" by the administration on the issue of discipline last year. But if abolishing the CRR and replacing it with a committee that affords students nearly every element of due process while simultaneously helping to reform the Ad Board is what you consider being "captured," then perhaps the council should be "captured" more often...
Lasting change did not occur until the 1960s, when the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) was created in recognition of the changing times and customs, and especially in view of the fact that large numbers of students were beginning to carry firearms. Basically, the CRR was designed to handle "special" disciplinary cases, namely, those which could not be dealt with appropriately by the Ad Board or a SWAT team...
...theory, this was to include all disciplinary cases involving politically motivated actions, crimes by members of wealthy or Mafia-connected families, or drug shipments in excess of $1 billion. In practice, though, virtually every disciplinary case wound up before the CRR, since technically the Ad Board was limited to cases of false advertising...
Although yesterday's vote signalled the formaldemise of the CRR, students, as always, still saythere is more to be done to perfect Harvard'sdisciplinary reform system...
...October, the group offered the steering bodyof the Faculty a proposal to replace the CRR witha board that would handle cases of a "public"nature and leave "private" cases under thejurisdiction of the Ad Board. While the Faculty'sexecutive steering body agreed to the idea ofmaintaining two boards, it rejected the method ofdividing the jurisdiction and sent the plan backto the planning committee...