Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leonard Mendonco '83, the newly elected South House representative to the CRR, said yesterday he will propose ways to reform the CRR, including banning hearsay evidence, requiring equal representation of students and faculty and allowing students to appeal CRR rulings...
...allows no mechanism for appeal of its decisions, and admits hearsay evidence to its proceedings. Students have boycotted it since its creation both to indicate their disapproval of its procedures and to protest the blatantly political nature of the motives behind its creation. Administrators have tinkered with some details of CRR's workings in response to student pressure, but the group's essential purpose remains unchanged: to co-opt some students into sitting in judgement on their peers for their political actions. Reform from within cannot alter that, and reforms alone will not improve a group with such an abhorrent...
Students began boycotting the committee only a few weeks after its inception, charging that its charter--the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities passed by the Faculty in 1969--was vague enough to allow the committee to punish students for their political beliefs using hearsay evidence and without right of appeal...
...Appel. '84, a member of the Freshman Council, said yesterday defining the jurisdiction of the committee more narrowly is one of the major reforms the council hopes to accomplish this year, along with establishing an appeals board, equalizing the numbers of students and Faculty on the committee, and, eliminating hearsay testimony...
...Editorials in People's Daily will remain an important news source," says Bernstein. "But, as an ancient Chinese proverb says, 'A thousand words of hearsay are not worth a single glance at the reality...