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...year began with a violent attack by the Weathermen on the CFIA. On September 25 a group of about 25 persons, none of them Harvard students, invaded the Center, roughed up staff members and employees, and fled after fifteen minutes. Because the attack came so early in the year many people were uncertain about just who the Weathermen were and how strong they were. University officials braced for a violent year. The Weathermen, of course, are a tiny splinter group of SDS and have not reappeared at Harvard since the CFIA action. But the issue of CFIA remains...
...Shortly after the disciplining of 138 University Hall occupiers last June, the Faculty voted approval of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and delegated virtually all disciplinary authority to it. The CRR was modeled closely after the Committee of Fifteen, a student-Faculty committee which meted out the first punishments. But the CRR-unlike the earlier disciplinary committee-was enabled to act with summary power, and thus lost much of the acceptance it might have gained if it had been more responsive to, and representative of, all members of the University...
...Meeting in a closed session before its scheduled gathering, the Faculty also approved the readmission of James T. Kilbreth III '69, whom the Committee of Fifteen had separated from Harvard for his part in the April 1969 occupation of University Hall...
...manifest biases of CRR have undermined its credibility even among students who believe that Harvard's version of "academic freedom" must be defended. Fifteen hundred undergraduate signatures endorsed an anti-CRR petition in a matter of two hours before the last Faculty meeting. Student members of the CRR keep resigning after their first taste of the committee's handiwork. The CRR may be tottering. But if we stop educating ourselves and others as to what the CRR is really all about, if we diffuse the pressure that we have brought to bear, we will allow Harvard to institutionalize and instrument...
...requires more than a general commitment to openness to protect the rights of all parties involved in the hearings." James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, said. "We must preserve the committee's right to hold orderly proceedings...