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...Faculty faces two distinct proposals for revision. It should quickly dispose of a resolution drafted by the Faculty Council, which only promises to exacerbate the problems that have faced the CRR in the past. A proposal advanced by William Paul, McKay Professor of Applied Physics, deserves lengthier consideration, but all of its provisions except one--the amendment intended to revitalize the long-dormant Commission on Inquiry--should also be voted down...
Both motions share one common drawback--they fail to consider a rewriting of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities that serves as a charter for both the Commission and the CRR. The Resolution was drafted in the stormy aftermath of the 1969 student strike. It was intended to define the rights and responsibilities of all members of the University community. Although indefinite, it at least delineated a reciprocal set of relationships among students, Faculty and Administrators...
...CRR was designed to enforce the Resolution's provisions concerning free speech and freedom of movement, while the Commission was intended to investigate Administrative unresponsiveness. They were expected to function on an even-handed basis, maintaining a community in which violations of the Resolution were unlikely to occur and meting out fair sanctions against those students who committed such violations...
...conservative Faculty passed a series of motions which vitiated the reciprocity of the Resolution and caused student trust to evaporate. Several amendments altering crucial language in the original document effectively severed student actions from both their political context and the question of Administration responsibility. The CRR, operating without students, who had resigned in protest of the Faculty's moves, moved into a position of prominence as almost two hundred students were disciplined at its whim. The Commission, given only advisory powers, was relegated to innocuously investigating matters of little importance...
...Faculty Council motion not only fails to take note of this discrepancy: It incredibly asks that a vote of confidence be given the present version of the Resolution, in addition to proposing two amendments to the CRR's procedures that would further circumscribe the rights of students facing trial by the Committee. We urge that it be speedily voted down...