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UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED last week that they have completed a tentative plan for replacing the notorious Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) and will seek student reactions to their proposal in coming weeks. Crucial features of the new plan have yet to be released, but as they are, students should keep in mind the serious problems with the CRR and be sure that the Harvard administration is not just retiring an unpopular name without addressing the issues of fairness and legitimacy that have plagued the Vietnam-era body...
...idea is that this group would have a much heavier workload [than the CRR] and consequently a sense of continuity," Marquand said...
...review of the faculty's disciplinary apparatus came after students objected to the 1984 revival of the long-dormant CRR to hear cases stemming from anti-apartheid protests. The CRR enforces a Vietnam-era code that outlines the rights of community members to freely express their opinions...
Undergraduate Council Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88 said that he opposed the phrasing of parts of the plan because they cause the new disciplinary body to resemble a renamed CRR with an expanded mission. "It has nothing to do with the CRR," Eisert, who helped draft the plan, said of the proposed group...
...committee would have a broader jurisdiction than the CRR and would certainly meet on a more regular basis," stated the proposal debated by the faculty group...