Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are many issues concerning the CRR other than a possible boycott. For example, people have raised questions about the committee's use of hearsay evidence. One action the students might take instead of a boycott is to send representatives with specific instructions to modify this policy. There's a whole range of issues and a whole range of legitimate action that only happens to include not sending any representatives...
UNLIKE A COURT of law, the CRR allows no right of appeal to a higher tribunal, has no established body of precedent to ensure fair punishment, may allow unsubstantiated hearsay evidence, and is used only to prosecute alleged abuses by students. Although apologists say the Ad Board is unable to handle cases involving hundreds of students, the CRR has never shown itself able to serve justice to any more than the most visible students...
...that it is unclear whether the guidelines of the CRR permit the sue of hearsay evidence--as well as what constitutes hearsay evidence--in student prosecutions...
...Faculty endowed the CRR with tribunal-like powers; and permission to use hearsay evidence, to appeals of convictions, and the right to hand down any type of sentence. This includes anything from a formal warning to probation to--with the Faculty's approval--expulsion from Harvard...
...pages of the The Harvard Crimson a great wrong has been committed. This month freshmen are choosing among the Houses, and it makes me angry that many intelligent, talented students who could contribute to the diversity of Eliot House will decide to live elsewhere on the basis of mindless hearsay like Mr. Abramowitz's comment. There are many of us here who don't have military interests in Central America, won't work for Morgan Stanley, and wouldn't have dreamed of voting for a man as right--wing as Walter Mondale, and we'd love to have some company...