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...revived after 10 years of dormancy, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) has been the subject of many Harvard demonstrations and dinner-table discussions during the month of May. Though many debate its role in the University, the CRR is a moot court created mainly to punish political protesters...
...supposed to punish students who disrupt the "essential processes" of the University or violate the freedom of speech or the freedom of movement of other persons at the University, according to its founding document. However, as the historical record shows, the tribunal has served mainly to punish political radicals who gain a following worthy of being called a "movement...
...ISSUE OF responsibility lies at the core of another aspect of the divestment movement at Harvard: discipline. The Faculty has reconstituted a Vietnam-era disciplinary body--the student-faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--to punish some of the 200 students involved in an April sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards and a blockade of a South African diplomat in a Lowell House room...
...lacks credibility because it exists only to punish political offenses and because its procedures--no right of appeal to a higher body, possible use of hearsay evidence, lack of clear guidelines matching punishments to crimes--are a mockery of due process...
Free speech. Throughout the history of the CRR, it has been invoked only to punish leaders of progressive causes. Even though, in my view, divestiture is not a leftist issue, but rather a humanitarian cause, it is clear that administration officials view it as an ideological excursion. Thus the University hierarchy initiates proceedings against undergraduates who stood outside Lowell House chanting radical phrases such as "one person, one vote" Use of the CRR historically only against students on one side of the political spectrum, will certainly have a chilling effect on free speech here at Harvard...