Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN '39 sure can throw a party. It was late, one o'clock in the morning, yet all the dignitaries were assembled in the Adams House Junior Common room--President Bok, Dean Epps, the Adams House Masters--to hear the maestro speak about his latest world tour...
...newly proposed Student-Faculty Committee on Discipline, which is to replace the CRR, would function as a standing body for appeals from the Administrative Board. As long as the new committee will hear appeals in all kinds of cases and will not become a second prosecutory body, it will be a welcome change...
...make the new disciplinary body legitimate and fair, standards of evidence, standards of punishment, criteria for calling witnesses and cross-examining them must all be explicitly stated in the new committee's charter. Most important there must be a clear procedure for determining which cases it will hear. Establishing an appeals body that will not artificially distinguish between political and "apolitical" cases is all well and good. It will be to no avail, however, if the faculty majority on the committee can refuse to hear cases. Saying, as the University has suggested, that the committee will make such decisions according...
...MAJORITY IS CORRECT in observing that the most important issue about any proposal for a new University judiciary body is what kinds of cases it will consider. But having the body hear charges brought against students for both politically-motivated activities and more mundane behavior hardly satisfies the requirements of fairness. The new committee should have authority to make findings of fact about charges brought against faculty, staff and administrators and at least to recommend appropriate disciplinary actions. Only by making all members of the community subject to scrutiny will all be afforded equal respect...