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...issues. Most of the information that has been disseminated through institutional forums--newspaper stories and house meetings--has been very negative and critical of the Faculty Council's decision to refer discipline, y actions involving the recent protests at 17 Quincy Street and Lowell House to the CRR, and of the CRR itself. From conversations with individual students, however, a much more varied range of students opinion becomes apparent. A large number of the students that we have talked with feel, along with us, that there are not inherent problems with the CRR. They have no objection to the CRR...
Specific attacks have been made against the Administration and Faculty in this dispute on four counts. Three of these we see as addressing structural concerns: a) There should not be two separate forums for disciplinary action; the Administrative Board alone should act in that capacity. b) The CRR as constituted possesses unreasonably broad and arbitrary disciplinary powers, and at present represents an ideological homogeneity that makes objective decisions unlikely. c) Student participation on the committee is unacceptable; students should not be forced (or allowed) to judge their peers. The fourth charge is more ideological: d) that the CRR...
...existence of two separate forums for disciplinary action is quite reasonable. The Administrative Board is intended to make decision on cases involving exceptions to, and infractions of, academic rules and social codes of conduct of the University. The CRR, on the other hand, exists to address cases involving violations of the second and third paragraphs of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which address violations of more general civil rights and freedoms. Such cases are likely to involve issues of wider scope than are motivated actions. The CRR was created during the violent political protests of the late...
...CRR's disciplinary powers are very similar to those of the Administrative Board, but with important exceptions. The differences are these: 1) The CRR has available to it more levels of severity of sanctions than does the Administrative Board, thus greater ability to fit punishment to the transgression; 2) Both the complainant and the defendant may appear before the CRR in its hearings, along with observers, and advisor, and witnesses. In Administrative Board cases, the defendant alone may appear, and then only when appealing a disciplinary requirement to withdraw. The most severe penalties available to the CRR, dismissal and expulsion...
...arguments against the CRR swirl around and sometimes contradict each other. But in the absence of even a half-hearted philosophical (as opposed to procedural) defense of the continued existence of the CRR in the '80s, these criticisms strike to the heart of the University's insecurity about its own actions...