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...proposed reforms include equalizing the number of students and faculty members serving on the committee, creating a special appeals board, barring hearsay evidence, allowing the release of transcripts of the hearings if both parties agree and prohibiting the presence of lawyers at the hearings...
...Just as the letters were mailed, students who have been attempting for two years to reform the CRR announced that their efforts may fail because the Faculty Council refused to accept two crucial reforms that would create an autonomous appeals board to the CRR and bar the use of hearsay evidence. In light of the Faculty Council's position, former student CRR members who have been instrumental in the reform efforts urged House committees and the Freshman Council to refuse to nominate students for the CRR at least until the full Faculty agrees to make fundamental changes in the nature...
Some former student members of the CRR who are attempting to reform the committee have urged students to boycott the CRR until the full Faculty votes to accept reforms barring hearsay evidence, creating an appeals board, and prohibiting legal counsel in hearings...
Although the full CRR--including Faculty members--voted to endorse all the reforms, the Faculty Council has refused to accede on two crucial demands: the creation of a separate appeals board to the CRR and the barring of hearsay evidence...
Last spring the Faculty Council told student members of the CRR it would not endorse a proposal to bar hearsay evidence from the hearings...