Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Whitlock said yesterday that the faculty would probably approve some structural reform of the CRR, such as equalizing student and faculty representation and eliminating the admission of hearsay evidence...
...best that the paper can offer on Watergate is a hearsay account of the forthcoming book by Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; the headline is ominous ("Another time bomb ticking away under the White House"), but the text offers no dynamite ("Insiders hint that Bernstein and Woodward make no new startling disclosures in their book...
Since 1970, house committees have refused to send student representatives to the CRR in protest of a change in policy that allowed the CRR to hold closed meetings and admit hearsay evidence...
House committees have repeatedly refused to send student members to the CRR, attacking its admission of hearsay evidence and closed hearings, its man-dated seven-to-four faculty-student ratio, and the concept of a special body for disciplining student demonstrators...
Unfortunately, a year later the Faculty changed the relatively reasonable structure it started out with. According to the revised Resolution on Rights and Reponsibilities, the CRR can hold closed hearings and accept hearsay evidence. No law courts could act this way, but the revised CRR can. On the other hand, even the original CRR wasn't designed to give students a trial by their peers: it always included a clear seven-to-four faculty majority. And the Commission of Inquiry set up by the original Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities to look into complaints about the abuses that lead...