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Faculty members fearful of any change in the present system of discipline easily quashed a set of innocuous reforms in the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and approved instead the CRR as it is presently constituted...
Although Faculty discussion this Fall about the controversial CRR was initially sparked by liberal Faculty members interested in reform, the three discussion sessions also gave their more conservative counterparts a chance to voice fears about purported threats to academic freedom...
...Faculty upended all six of Paul's CRR reform proposals by four-to-one majorities, and endorsed instead three stand-pat amendments by similarly lopsided margins...
...conservative proposals, drawn up by the Faculty Council, endorsed the present version of the CRR and gave the Committee a blank check to "improve" its procedures...
Paul's other amendments are aimed at reforming the present CRR, by providing for student representation on the Committee, open hearings if the defendent so desires, and the establishment of a body separate from the original committee to hear appeals. Although these amendments too are well-intended, we fail to see how they can provide the total overhaul the CRR needs. Students left the CRR originally because they objected to the revised Resolution: we fail to see how they can return until its original promise as an even-handed document applicable to all segments of the University community is redeemed...