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...CRR was convened in the late 60s during a time when the existence of the University was being threatened and it was endowed with military tribunal like powers, almost all of which survive today...
...these arguments have been made, in House Committees and in The Crimson, but they do not get at the foot of the CRR problem: the committee has neither due process nor responsibility for its actions...
Unlike the Administrative Board the CRR carries no stamp of University approval. Once the CRR has been convened, no administrator or Faculty member can affect its outcome. The University can separate itself from--and deny responsibility--for the CRR's actions, even though those actions are likely similar to those that would have been handed down by the Ad Board...
UNLIKE A COURT of law, the CRR allows no right of appeal to a higher tribunal, has no established body of precedent to ensure fair punishment, may allow unsubstantiated hearsay evidence, and is used only to prosecute alleged abuses by students. Although apologists say the Ad Board is unable to handle cases involving hundreds of students, the CRR has never shown itself able to serve justice to any more than the most visible students...
Four years after the Report on College Governance by Professor of Biology John E. Dowling '57, the College has still ignored the report's recommendation that it reconsider the function of the CRR, which it called "essentially non-functional...and...unlikely...[to] become important or significant in College affairs in the foreseeable future...