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...rigid pattern has been established: the Administration routinely makes use of the committee to press charges against radical students, and the Faculty always ratifies whatever the committee proposes-except the one time when CRR spokesmen suggested a mild statement of Administrative and Faculty responsibility...
...result, the committee has become increasingly powerful and immune to such ordinary sanctions as judicial review. The admission of hearsay evidence, the lack of a separate panel to handle appeals, the use of explicitly political questioning; each of these violations of common legal practice is regularly committed by the CRR, making a mockery of its pretensions to the role of an impartial judicial committee. For these reasons, the CRR as presently constituted can no longer he allowed to operate...
...enough to reject the CRR entirely without considering an alternative form of discipline. Whenever the question was raised in the referendum, students voted overwhelmingly that they favored some sort of disciplinary body. And since the Administration and Faculty have refused to provide an equitable form of student discipline, then undergraduates must create one by themselves...
Until a new system is approved, students and others should make it as difficult as they can for the present CRR to operate. A boycott of the committee by all those who are called as witnesses or representatives, an attempt to dissuade individual Faculty members from serving on the committee, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest whenever the committee meets; these will all be necessary to prevent the committee from operating...
FINALLY, students should demand amnesty for the hundreds of students who have already been disciplined by the committee. Since it is common legal practice to overturn decisions that have been made in violation of judicial procedure, the CRR's numerous violations of procedure have already made amnesty a necessary first step in restoring fairness to student discipline. And since hundreds of careers and reputations have already been damaged by the CRR's grossly unjust operations, the University should be compelled to make a public apology for the committee's actions. With such an apology, a firm basis for equitable student...