Word: grahams
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...unfortunate that many undergraduates seem to share, at least to some degree, David Graham's opinion ["Dissenting Opinion," February 11] as to how the disciplinary process should be carried on at this University. The reforms recently undertaken by the Administrative Board are, as he does point out, a beginning, and more certainly needs to be done; however Mr. Graham's contention that cross-examination is not a desirable further reform displays a fundamental misperception of how the concept of justice relates to the Harvard community. The idea of justice is an essential component of any society, whatever its size...
...point of all this, against Mr. Graham, is that there is a concept of what constitutes justice and what does not, and that this concept applies across the board, wholly independently of the size of the community to which it is applied. To say that cross-examination should not be a procedure for the Ad Board on the basis of the nasty looks and comments witnesses against the accused will later receive is equivalent (although in a much smaller scale) to saying that democracy should be dispensed with because it is inefficient...
...Graham said she first thought of this bill inKenya, where she talked with members of thatcountry's parliament about ways to fightapartheid...
This bill, said Graham, "is an educationaltool. We have to show people what the issue is allabout, and heighten the pressure on companies thathave not divested...
...Saundra Graham, who regained her seat by anarrow margin in 1985, plans a longer campaignthan do most of her fellow incumbents...