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...CRR as presently constituted is grossly unfair both in its conception and its procedures. It has all of the powers usually vested in judicial bodies--it charges students and tries and resolves their cases--but none of the strictures usually imposed on them. It can hold closed hearings, deny students the right to counsel and admit hearsay evidence. Although all the cases it hears involve students, its composition (four students and seven Faculty members) is stacked to let Faculty views dominate...
...Faculty created the CRR in 1970 as a result of Harvard student disruption in the late '60s. It was formed to hear cases concerning members of the University who engaged in what a Faculty resolution termed "unacceptable obstruction of the University...
Since its inception, students have opposed the CRR and refused to elect representatives to the committee, often citing the lack of equal student representation and the absence of defendant's judicial safeguards...
...addition to restructuring the CRR, the report advises the rewriting of the 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities to include a reference to "the responsibility of University officers to be responsive to the needs of the University community...
...report also calls for a redefinition of what the 1970 resolution called punishable violations, and recommends a specific code and guidelines to define punishable violations for the CRR...