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SINCE THE UNIVERSITY pulled the rusty old Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) out of the shed last spring to discipline a handful of anti-apartheid protesters, a lot of things have changed at Harvard...
There is no question that a committee so construed would protect the rights of all members of the University community more effectively than do present institutions. It would safeguard students' rights better than do both the one-sided procedures of the CRR and the secrecy of the Ad Board and would force all University members to respect all individual rights. Perhaps most important, such a committee would demonstrate that Harvard is truly more interested in building an open and free academic community than it is in preserving the status quo and silencing malcontents...
...CRR is charged with enforcing the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, a document designed to protect the rights of all members of the University. Curiously enough, however, the Student Handbook tells us that the CRR is empowered only to "hear charges of violations of the Resolution's second and third paragraphs by students in the College or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...years of existence, the CRR has not functioned as an independent arbiter of individual freedoms. Rather, it has been called on by the administration to mete out discipline in cases in which students have been involved in coordinated political activities. Its role has been both to intimidate student activists and to deflect responsibility for punishing students away from University Hall. The COI's functions, on the other hand, are ambiguous at best. It has no authority either to levy sanctions or to demand redress. Moreover, it can do little even to investigate grievances. Perhaps the COI's role...
...problem with the current division of labor between the COI and the CRR is twofold: first, it protects the rights of some members of the community and not of others; second, it can often be invoked or restrained at the pleasure of University administrators. Establishing an independent judiciary body empowered to protect the essential rights of all members of the University remains an excellent idea. But if such a committee is to be truly impartial and independent, it must subsume the functions of both the CRR and the COI and retain its autonomy from Harvard administrators...