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...disappointed when I read that Adams House had reversed its decision to send representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). My own feeling is that the failure to send student representatives to CRR is a strategic error on the part of the FAS student body. My reason for writing is not to argue that position, as I do not feel this is the appropriate place to do so. I am writing rather to ask that the Crimson be more careful in its coverage of the issue, as misstatements by Crimson writers decrease the likelihood of reasonable discussion...
...CRR was not "formed by the Faculty to discipline students involved in political demonstrations," as Sandra E. Cavazos stated (February 26). CRR is empowered only to enforce the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which explicitly recognizes the right of students to engage in political activity, including demonstrations. Cavazos continues, "The CRR...has been boycotted by students since its inception after the 1969 takeover of University Hall." This is misleading both because it fails to recognize the difference between the Committee of Fifteen and CRR, and because it gives the impression that the action by Adams and South Houses...
Bucking tradition, the South House Committee this week unanimously decided that it still wanted to send two student representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). The South House vote--technically a motion of confidence for the House's CRR representatives--countered a trend begun by the Freshman Council and Adams House to rescind their CRR nominations after originally deciding to break the ten-year-long boycott of the disciplinary body. The South House Committee urged its CRR representatives to "work for the reform of CRR from within and without...
...House Committee has not yet decided whether it will recommend abolishing the CRR...
These reforms will include rotating the chairmanship of the CRR between students and Faculty representatives, using a standard litigatory process on disciplinary matters, and allowing students the right to an appeal...