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...Faculty will meet today in special session to consider once again a revamping of the oftencritized Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. Instead of attempting to reform an institution whose claims to legitimacy in the University community have long since been dashed, the Faculty should move promptly to abolish the CRR...
...CRR--which celebrates its third birthday this Fall--was established in the wake of the University Hall occupation to facilitate the political repression of student activists. After the 1969 upheaval, the Administration realized it could no longer discipline activists itself by using the Administrative Board, so it moved with the blessing of the Governing Boards to garner Faculty support. First the Committee of Fifteen, and then the CRR were established by the Faculty to implement a hastily written Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...
Antiwar activists were also in the week's news. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) announced it will reconsider the cases of five students accused by the Administration of participating in an antiwar sit-in at Littauer Center...
Bowersock said that the reconsideration process will begin with a rehearing of Messing's case. He said he plans to ask both the Administration and Messing to call witnesses and appear before the Committee in accordance with CRR procedural rules...
Blustein's fate will also be determined by a special Faculty meeting slated for October 3. The meeting was scheduled last June after 92 Faculty members sought a review of her case. She was found guilty by the CRR and required to withdraw for one year thereby denying her a diploma although she had fulfilled all requirements for a degree