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...Dunster House committee voted Monday to continue its boycott of the CRR, and now is trying to get student representatives to draft proposals to reform the CRR. Unfortunately, the greatest obstacle facing would-be reformers is student ignorance: most undergraduates now at Harvard were not here during the most serious CRR disputes...
After the April 1969 occupation of University Hall, the Faculty passed a "Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities," stating what it believed to be the standards of conduct in an academic community. It then established the CRR to discipline students who violated the Resolution, and named six Faculty members and three students to serve on an interim CRR. All nine were members of the Committee of Fifteen, set up in earlier to investigate 150 disciplinary cases stemming from the occupation...
...spring of 1970, the Faculty amended the Resolution, changing the structure of the CRR. Coincidentally, Richard Nixon launched his Cambodia incursion that May, and Harvard was once again engulfed in political protests. After these demonstrations, the student members of the CRR resigned--two because they agreed with the anti-war demonstrations, the third because of pressure from other students to resign. For whatever their reasons, those three students began the boycott of the CRR...
...SPRING OF 1971, the Faculty changed the method of selecting student members for the CRR in the hope of finding students to serve on it. But twice that spring in University-wide referenda, students voted to boycott the CRR, temporarily foiling the Faculty's attempt to lend legitimacy to the CRR through student participation. In 1973, there was an attempt to nominate students for the CRR from Leverett House, but that failed, leaving the boycott intact...
Although the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities has undergone a dizzying series of Faculty amendments, the CRR's weaknesses are still apparent. The Resolution says that the CRR can listen to all evidence presented to it, including hearsay evidence, which is not admissable in a court of law. The CRR can deny defendants the right to legal counsel or hold closed hearings. Students found guilty of "interference with members of the University in performance of their normal duties and activities," can be expelled, dismissed, or required to withdraw. The student has no avenue of appeal--he can only...