Word: hearsay
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...until recently held closed hearings, and still has the power to do so. It can deny students the right to have legal counsel present at the hearings, and can admit hearsay evidence. There is no separate appeals board; the CRR rules on any appeals of its decisions and must approve the readmission of any students it has expelled...
...past, students have objected to the unequal number of students and faculty members on the CRR, the committee's denial to students of the legal right to counsel, the allowance of bringing hearsay evidence against students, and the lack of a separate appeals board separate from...
...tribal rite of circumcision, the torturous voyage from Africa aboard a slaver, whippings, rapes and even the hatcheting of Kunta Kinte's foot. For many black viewers, Roots succeeded in putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little Rock Teacher Charles Pruitt: "The black kids resent what has happened and say, 'They couldn't do it to me like...
...Main Street, meeting all with old-fashioned manners and a memory that runs back, clear and voluminous, to the early '90s, well before his mother Nina moved here to Plains with him, his three sisters and his brother James Earl. For with all his tendrils of memory and hearsay that reach from the main stem back toward the Revolution, England and Ireland, Mr. Alton starts his own tale where he knows it to start-with calamity his own eyes saw up close...
...membership is slightly weighted in favor of the Faculty by an eight-to-six margin. It can deny students the right to legal counsel at its hearings and can admit hearsay evidence against students. CRR cases are appealed to the CRR itself, and under certain types of expulsion, students can only be re-admitted through application to the committee. Students can also be brought before the CRR for offenses vaguely defined as "obstructing the normal processes of the University...