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Roger Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, was hesitant about discussing his past association with that disciplinary body: "Ah, yes, I guess. What does CRR stand for again?" At the time, Rosenblatt says he remembers thinking that the University should not have to resort to such a quasi-legal, formalized process...
...were to give my personal advice, it would be, don't join the CRR. Their [the students'] lives were made miserable. When it was done for me, I went home; they had to face the students in the dorm." Wilson recalls that one student on the Committee of Fifteen placed himself in the care of University Health Services for psychological trauma, which Wilson says was caused by ostracism from fellow students. Rosenblatt concurs: "They were seen as a kind of ghetto police...
...Thomas Crooks, then master of Dudley House, walked up to him, Fernandez recalls, and said, "John, the Committee of Fifteen needs someone with a reasonable mind." Fernandez thought it over and decided to run in his House elections for a seat on the Committee...
...committee members did not include Fernandez in all of their activities. When the Committee of Fifteen met with concerned older alumni, Fernandez was not invited...
...clear University Hall of student protesters in 1969, battering heads with billyclubs, choking lungs with tear gas, and knocking Timothy H.S. Venn '72 from his wheelchair onto the concrete. It took the Faculty less than one day to agree to set up a disciplinary body called the Committee of Fifteen, later the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), to punish these student demonstrators. It took less than two months for the Committee of Fifteen to penalize 135 students, forcing 16 to leave the University--many for good...