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...over a year now University officials have been trying to formulate a plan for an alternative to the Vietnam-era Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). It is disappointing that they have realized nothing more profound during this arduous process than that the name of the infamous body must be changed...
...process and which gives students the right to an open hearing, would protect students' rights regardless of the extraneous circumstances of the charges brought against them. But unless such a new disciplinary committee is an appeals body, it will fall into the same trap that mired the CRR in controversy over questions of legitimacy...
According to its charter, the CRR was to have six student members, six faculty members, and a faculty chairman who voted only to break ties. Students have boycotted the CRR since its inception, charging that the body can be used to quash political protest...
Currently, protest cases are relegated to the CRR and other incidents of disruption are heard by the Administrative Boards of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which also hear cases resulting from infractions of academic rules...
Since the CRR's creation in the late 1960s, students have boycotted the body, saying that its jurisdiction is not clearly defined and that the University has called on it to quell activism...