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...conservative stands on questions like University discipline, the Afro-American Studies Department and graduate student rights did much to undermine the halting progress being made at Harvard in the late sixties. He threw his weight behind the repressive Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, building a sequestered fortress for the CRR atop Holyoke Center so it could kick out dissidents in peace. He orchestrated the offensive against the Afro-American Studies Department which culminated in the restructuring of the Department in January: even after leaving for Washington, he explicitly retained a hand in appointing the search committees that are playing...
...continued to demonstrate its lack of interest in the equal participation of students in disciplining members of the University community who have violated the rights of others. No student has served on the committee for the past two-and-one-half years, and students' continued refusal to endorse the CRR underscores its role as a mechanism for arbitrary Faculty decision-making. Conservative hyperbole about the threat of student influence to Faculty rights is ludicrous; it is privilege, not legitimate authority that the Faculty seeks to defend...
...both the Colleges and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and as chief Faculty legislator, the dean exerts a critical influence in the academic and non-academic lives of students. Harvard's near-refusal last Spring to allow SDS to meet on campus, the design of legislation opposing CRR reform, the chaotic situation facing the Afro-American Studies Department, and the current impasse between graduate students and the Administration are all, in large measure, the responsibility of the former dean...
...their own petty power are more concerned with pushing pliable conservative candidates on the Faculty than with prospects at all responsive to student views. Their own passion for manipulation--of fellow Faculty as well as of students--is apparent from the Faculty Council's treatment of the recent CRR reform proposals...
...Faculty to reaffirm the principle of reciprocity embodied in the original Resolution on Rights and Responsibility. If those studying the Commission fail to consider restructuring it or changing its mandate, no study or publicity will make the Commission an instrument for establishing the responsible community to which the original CRR aspired...