Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the College revived the long-dormant committee last spring to hear cases stemming from South Africa-related protests, house committees once again refused to send delegates, and only five of 18 defendents appeared at their own hearings...
...Government Department chairman and other faculty members are not the only ones who call student objections to the CRR's procedures overplayed. When the CRR convened last spring for the first time in more than seven years to hear cases arising from South Africa-related protests, most of those charged refused to take part in its hearings. Several students who observed the CRR in action last summer say assaults against the body are not warranted...
...went so far out of its way to understand the student point of view, even when the students did not show up, that I'm still surprised," says Mark Friedell, CRR member and assistant professor of computer science. "One thing would be to say, 'All right, lets hear from the dean and that's it,' the other would be to go even further to consider the student view...
John N. Ross '87, who was brought before the CRR for his involvement in the Lowell House blockage says the board has carte blanche to write its own rules whenever it chooses. "Legally, if the University wanted to, it could enpower [Dean] Epps to hear all cases and decide them," he adds...
...student counselor says the Administrative Board, which handles student discipline cases, is "notorious for inaction," and Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the College for coeducation and a sexual harassment hearing officer, says she agrees. She says that a new ad hoc committee has been formed within the Ad Board to hear special cases that relate to issues of peer harassment. The problem, she says, is that "two students with different interpretations of the same series of events make it very difficult to determine blame, even though one's sympathies lie with the victim...