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Today, students cite that feeling as justifying their protest of the body. The CRR exists to quash political debate and that is reason enough to protest, they say, and how it goes about punishing campus dissent is irrelevant...
...faculty members and administrators draw a firm line between the administration, which brings charges against students, and the faculty, which evaluates the charges with the CRR. The real objective for University disciplinary bodies, faculty members say, should be to escape the influence of administrators who police students, and who may have an interest in quashing protest movements which become disruptive. They say the CRR well satisfies that objective...
They say the faculty members who sit on the CRR--many of whom are tenured--can resist administration pressure to crack down on students...
...CRR went so far out of its way to understand the student point of view, even when the students did not show up, that I'm still surprised," says Mark Friedell, CRR member and assistant professor of computer science. "One thing would be to say, 'All right, lets hear from the dean and that's it,' the other would be to go even further to consider the student view...
Currier House senior Raphael says the CRR tried to distance itself from the administration during last year's proceedings, remembering: "I got the sense there was every attempt to be impartial, wondering if Dean Epps had said something for a certain effect [for example...