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...DECISION last week by a group of freshmen to break the seven-year boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities was, at the very least, discouraging. Aside from the specific problems with its composition and procedures, the CRR stands as a symbol of the Faculty's paternalistic, perhaps even repressive attitude toward students. By bowing to the Faculty's desire that the CRR's kangaroo courts attain a veneer of legitimacy through token student participation, the freshmen who voted to end the boycott displayed a sadly misplaced confidence in the good will of the Faculty...
...usually around 11:00 p.m.) to ask my opinion on weighty matters, I refuse to answer any but the most simple questions, on the grounds that I have no control over the results. When a reporter called on Thursday evening to inquire about the actions of the CRR during my chairmanship in 1975, I broke my rule, since it seemed that only straightforward facts were involved, which I could at least count on being accurately recorded...
...wrong I was. Of the two paragraphs in Friday's Crimson that emerged from the conversation, one is entirely inaccurate--indeed, a fabrication--and the other a serious misrepresentation. As to the first: I did not say "that the CRR did not consider how the administration identified the students" in the Mass Hall sit-in of 1975. I was never asked a question about identification. The reporter told me of several allegations made by the Task Force, including the fact that only six out of sixteen students were prosecuted; I replied that this, as well as the other facts noted...
Second: although I did make the statement quoted about not considering "the possibility that the administration had violated the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities," I also explained why the CRR did not do so. The CRR cannot initiate any action; it is not a prosecuting body. No charge concerning the administration was brought before us, and we therefore considered none. The statement as it appears in The Crimson implies that the CRR made a deliberate decision in favor of the administration, to ignore alleged misdemeanors; it is to that extent a misrepresentation of what I said. Isabel G. MacCaffrey Professor...
...present, the four freshmen nominees will begin studying CRR reform proposals, and planning strategy with CHUL. The first real test will come when they try to present their proposals to the Faculty, or when students are brought before the CRR after a political demonstration...