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...students involved in drawing up the original reforms in 1977 did not. Laura S. Besvinick '80, who was one of four students on the CRR in 1977 and member of the first class to break the boycott, said yesterday the final CRR legislation, which passed the Faculty Council last December, is a sadly diluted version of their earlier package of reforms. The Council vetoed the recommended reforms to bar hearsay evidence from CRR hearings and to create an appeals board. The Council did agree to eliminate legal counsel at hearings and to set up guidelines for release of taped transcripts...
Just before the Faculty approved the reforms of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the present chairman of the CRR rose to announce his hope that students might finally see fit to end their intermittent eight-year boycott of the committee...
...some House committee chairmen, who originally voted to boycott CRR again this year, found the Faculty vote more encouraging. Susan McConnell '79, chairman of the North House committee, said yesterday the committee would soon review its decision to support the boycott, in view of the Faculty vote...
...hope, however. Today and tomorrow, in the election of new assembly representatives, the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU) is pushing that assembly to become more issue-oriented by putting up a slate of candidates running on the same platform. The CDU calls, rightly, for democratizing the CRR and the ASCR, open meetings for University committees, more aggressive affirmative action and so forth. But these issues are not the real issue...
...realize what may happen to this response to your editorial. But in the interest of your usually fair journalistic practices, please don't bury it. Richard Chassin CRR student coalition