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...presence of students on the CRR has arguably been instrumental in guaranteeing a fairer trial. "A lot more than three students would have been dismissed if it weren't for the students who sat on the committee," said John P. Fernandez '69, a student delegate who sat on the CRR that tried the 138 students involved in the April, 1969 occupation of University Hall...
Most importantly, it should be noted that a student boycott of the CRR will achieve nothing, thus far it has only led Harvard to grant the CRR full power to function without students sitting on the committee. In the 13 times that the Faculty Council has called upon the CRR since 1969, the Council has never rescined its decision to convene it in the year would effectively disband the committee is nothing but romantic idealism. It is time for students to stop washing their morality laden hands of the CRR...
Students have termed the committee "illegitimate." But it is only following orders to uphold a piece of University legislation known as the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR). Much of the problem with the CRR stems from the fact that the RRR is vague enough to allow students to be prosecuted for their political beliefs CRR opponents wrongly claim that the committee's preconceived purpose is to stifle political dissent. This is factually incorrect in two respects...
First, the CRR exists for just the opposite reason--to enforce the rights to free speech and movement at the University, which those involved in the Lowell House blockade clearly did not allow South African diplomat Abe Hopenstein. In addition, the committee was created as a special body to hear more complicated cases in which political dissent may constitute a reasonable extenuating circumstance to pardon conduct that the Administrative Board--the College's traditional disciplinary body--normally would punish...
...Board--like the CRR--has authority to uphold the RRR and to levy the same range of punishments against students. But the Ad Board, unlike the CRR, takes these measures without student input, does not allow students (except on an appeal) to appear in person before it to defend their actions, and does not have the same ability to handle mass offenses...