Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution of society. In fact, the novel's memoir form ensures that he is always on the stand. His accusations are clear, but his evidence is not easy to sort out. Eloquence is frequently drowned out by bombast, and testimony too often has the imprecision of hearsay. For all its forthright bitterness, !Click Song is guarded. It is as if its author had to keep counting to ten so that he would not explode into autobiography. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...that became the CRR was founded in 1969 to punish student demonstrators. A committee of Faculty members, administrators and students, with the power to suspend or expel students, the CRR was organized to make it almost impossible for students to receive fair hearings. It met behind closed doors, accepted hearsay evidence, prohibited appeals outside of itself and did not give students equal representation in its membership. Because of these conditions and because students felt the CRR existed only to stifle political dissent, they boycotted the committee from the outset...
House members yesterday cited several CRR procedures they considered objectionable, including the lack of notification of charges, the barring of lawyers from student hearings, and the use of hearsay evidence...
...when 17 faculty members signed a memo last fall asking the faculty to change the future dean selection process. Although Bok knows most of the faculty personally from his experience as professor and dean of the school, he alienated some members of the faculty who had to rely on hearsay alone...
...They have forgotten that the members of the Committee of Fifteen--along with the CRR, which replaced it--conducted its hearings in seclusion behind locked and guarded doors on the penthouse-level Meeting Room K of Holyoke Center, high above the student rallies. They have forgotten that it accepted hearsay evidence; they have forgotten that it would not permit appeal outside of itself. They have forgotten that students and faculty were not equally represented on the committee panel. They have forgotten that Faculty and administrators--not to mention the police--could not be prosecuted for breaking the same rules...