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...SURELY as January means the coming of exams, a new year meant the return of the CRR debate. Many students here--especially freshmen, most of whom were about six years old when the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities was born--may not know the significance of this annual campus rite. But the CRR is potentially important to all of us, as are the lessons of the committee's troubled history...
...organization that became the CRR was founded in 1969 to punish student demonstrators. A committee of Faculty members, administrators and students, with the power to suspend or expel students, the CRR was organized to make it almost impossible for students to receive fair hearings. It met behind closed doors, accepted hearsay evidence, prohibited appeals outside of itself and did not give students equal representation in its membership. Because of these conditions and because students felt the CRR existed only to stifle political dissent, they boycotted the committee from the outset...
...boycott has been a success. The CRR has not met since 1975, but it has not disappeared either. Each year, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, still asks House committees and the freshman class to send representatives to the CRR. Last year, South House voted to break the boycott, and there were signs that other Houses might be willing to go along. Supporters of the boycott have said they hoped to reform the CRR from the inside, but this is an ineffective strategy for a body that scarcely ever meets. There were some minimal "reforms" in the CRR constitution...
...Graduate Student Council (GSC) this week voted to support the long-standing boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the body formed after the 1969 takeover of University Hall to handle non-academic disciplinary problems. In a four-point resolution, the GSC said it decided to support the boycott because of what it views as the lack of parity between students and faculty members on the CRR, the committee's willingness to accept heresy evidence, its refusal to allow students appearing before it to have lawyers present, and its refusal to hold open meetings. "In its present form...
Rodriguez, who served last year as head of the committee on student life, said in his speech that he would concentrate his efforts on producing a "students' rights handbook" which would explain in detail the workings of the Ad Board and the CRR...