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...separate investigations, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) and the Commission of Inquiry (COI) have come up with remarkably similar conclusions about what happened at that protest. Both reports found that students formed a blockade (be it active or passive) in front of the Lowell House Junior Common Room to prevent a South African diplomat's exit. They also found that Harvard Police acted entirely on their own in deciding to form a "human battering ram" through the blockade to free the diplomat...
...similarities end there. The CRR's report disciplines protesters for violations of the Faculty legislation upholding rights of freedom of movement. The COI report, on the other hand, concludes that police did not use excessive force in any of their actions, that students were not recruited by police to help form the battering ram, and that an isolated incident of excessive force by one police officer could not be connected with the badge number eyewitnesses gave to the commission...
...CRR heard more than 60 hours of testimony from students, administrators, and police present at the protest; it worked through the summer in determining the events and violations that occurred at Lowell House; and it spent thousands of dollars to bring students from around the country to testify before the committee...
...Faculty Council last week informally agreed to send all undergraduates and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students copies of the CRR report, another report about student charges of police misconduct at the Lowell House incident, a statement outlining the administrative "chain of command" during disruptive incidents, and a letter from Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 responding to the police misconduct report...
...faculty paid roughly $6525 (75 cents per copy) to distribute the packet to the 8700 undergraduates and graduate students, who should be receiving their copies yesterday or today. Marquand said the expenditure was indicative of the council's interest in engendering student understanding of the CRR and related issues