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...Faculty Council votes to reconstitute a Vietnam-era disciplinary body to discipline students involved in the April 24 sit-in at 17 Quincy St. and the May 2 blockade at Lowell House. The student-faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) had not tried a case for a decade...
...House Committee chairmen unanimously vote to temporarily continue a 15-year student boycott of the CRR. They say the onset of exam period does not give them enough time to discuss whether students should serve on the controversial committee. Some chairman say that they will definitely continue the boycott, calling the CRR an illegitimate body without due pieces...
...Graduate students, who are allowed to send two representatives to the CRR, vote to join undergraduates in refusing to send delegates...
There are many issues concerning the CRR other than a possible boycott. For example, people have raised questions about the committee's use of hearsay evidence. One action the students might take instead of a boycott is to send representatives with specific instructions to modify this policy. There's a whole range of issues and a whole range of legitimate action that only happens to include not sending any representatives...
Student representatives would ordinarily serve for an entire year, without any prior knowledge of the cases they would be sitting on. They would ordinarily be interested in upholding the rights outlined in the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities that forms the mandate for the CRR. Instead, student representatives we send now would be people interested specifically in judging the two recent protest cases, That alone is enough to exclude someone from a jury in a court of law. It clearly bases the focus of the committee...