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...proposals, which the Faculty has not yet considered, would alter the CRR's student-faculty ratio, disallow the introduction of hearsay evidence against students, and revise the committee's charter...
Objections to the CRR are straightforward. Its composition is weighted in favor of the Faculty members. There is no separate body to which students can appeal CRR decisions. The CRR can deny students the right to legal counsel when appearing before it, and can admit hearsay evidence against a student. Furthermore, the CRR's charter is extraordinarily vague in defining the offenses that make a student liable for discipline; in fact, almost any administrator can bring a student before the CRR on charges of "interference with members of the University in performance of their normal duties...
Student objections to the CRR centered around its composition (weighted in favor of the Faculty), its procedures (which allow hearsay evidence against students and lets the CRR deny students the right to counsel), the vague definition of offenses for which students can be prosecuted, and the lack of a separate appeals board...
...just that none of the big teams have raced each other, and so the seeding is all on hearsay," captain Katy Moss explained yesterday. "It won't make too much difference anyway. They'll all come up against each other in the finals...
...committee to reform the CRR noted some of the most objectionable of the CRR's problems: its power to deny students who come before it the right to legal counsel, its power to admit hearsay evidence against a defendant, its Faculty domination, the broad discretion allowed the University in defining a punishable offense, and the lack of a separate board of appeal. On all these counts, students agreed that the CRR needed reform...