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Amid student unrest in 1969. Harvard created the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) to discipline students violating freedoms guaranteed by the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...
...weeks ago, the Faculty Council called on the CRR--which has not heard a case since 1975 to decide the cases of students involved in the Quincy St and Lowell House anti-apartheid protests...
...CRR is the only disciplinary body in which students can actively participate. Yet throughout the 1970s House committees boycotted the CRR charging that it could punish students for their political beliefs without appeal to a higher body...
With the minor exception of the Lowell House blockade, the student pro-divestment, anti-apartheid movement has been conducted in the best traditions of the Rev. Martin Luther King. The use of the CRR to quash the movement and turn the debate away from its proper place--University conduct--is Big Brotherism of the most cynical and small-minded sort...
...CRR is not worth the paper it is printed on and students--for all their optimistic talk of reform and a new ear--should not even grace the CRR with their presence. The University will conduct its disciplinary action regardless of what the students do. Let them take responsibility...