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Last week's undergraduate referendum on reform of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities showed clearly that students are dissatisfied with the CRR's present structure and procedures. Although the turnout in the referendum was disappointingly small----only about 1000 students voted----over 90 per cent of the students agreed that the CRR must be reformed, and approved four specific proposals for change in the CRR...
...committee to reform the CRR noted some of the most objectionable of the CRR's problems: its power to deny students who come before it the right to legal counsel, its power to admit hearsay evidence against a defendant, its Faculty domination, the broad discretion allowed the University in defining a punishable offense, and the lack of a separate board of appeal. On all these counts, students agreed that the CRR needed reform...
...committee is also considering two proposals that would allow students to appeal CRR decisions to either the Commission of Inquiry or the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, but they have not yet made a final decision between them...
Under its current charter, the CRR serves as the appeal board for its own decisions...
Stuart Peskoe '76 said Tuesday nigh that Dean Whitlock told him the Faculty Council would not take nay action on the CRR reform proposals until next fall, but encouraged the committee to hold the student referendum this spring...