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...CRR WAS FIRST CREATED during Harvard demonstrations against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Students took over University Hall several times and sponsored class boycotts during an era when student protests rocked U.S., European and Latin American campuses...
University-affiliates filed grievances with the CRR to bring activist students to trial. Subsequently, most of the students were given warnings, some were temporarily suspended, some expelled and others told never to show then faces at Harvard again...
...court was neither called back to life to punish students after a 1978 building takeover nor to try them for heckling U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38 at a speech last year. As far as Faculty legislation is concerned, these incidents certainly warranted CRR action. However, the University probably did not reinstitute the court after those two events because activists did not have an organized backing at the time...
...activists oppossing Harvard's South African investment policy have garnered enough support from the student body and other American campuses to take symbolic protest action that may eventually lead to real change. The University, through the CRR, wants to apply brakes to the burgeoning movement...
Besides serving mainly to stifle Harvard protesters who choose to demonstrate with more than shouts and chants, the CRR is illegitimate for procedural reasons. Decisions made there cannot be appealed to another body, and the CRR does not make clear what type of evidence it will and will not allow...