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...height of student Vietnam War protests, Harvard in 1969 created the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) to discipline students violating the faculty's resolution upholding individual freedoms and obligations, like freedom of speech and movement...
Last May, the Faculty Council revived the CRR--which had not heard a case since 1975--to decide the cases of about 18 students involved in two spring anti-apartheid protests, a sit-in at the home of Harvard's governing boards and a blockade of a South African diplomat at Lowell House...
...states in the Resolution, that "the CRR is a student-Faculty committee available to hear charges of violations of the Resolution's second and third paragraphs by students in the College or GSAS," then all cases of peer harassment should be diverted from the Ad Board to the CRR. The Faculty Council invalidates the existence of its own committee by not letting it exercise its full authority in the students' academic and social lives as well...
Thus, it becomes clear that the true purpose of the CRR is not to determine what constitutes civil disobedience nor to administer the rightful rewards of civil disobedience, but to prevent students from acting from conscience and actively protesting It serves as a strong-arm of the administration and violates the very rights of political expression, whose protection is ostensibly the sole purpose of its existence...
...stands, I believe the CRR violates students' rights as members of the University and of this country. I hope that during my tour years at the College, I never unknowingly signed away my rights to free speech and protest. The protection of rights of expression is fundamental to the functioning of any place of learning. I believe that the CRR should become an active body with power equal to that of the Ad Board and that its functions should reach beyond those indicated in the Resolution. For example, it should try all cases of harassment--peer, political, racial religious...