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...this regret and outrage lack channels for its full expression. In the best of all possible worlds it would no doubt be possible to organize a tribunal to assess the burden of guilt borne by so many professional political scientists for the criminal war in Southeast Asia and to punish them accordingly...
...heard, the complainant has been an administrator. (The only exceptions to this are the charges growing out of attacks on the CFIA. There, Robert Bowie, director of the Center, pressed charges.) The CRR does not decide ultimate guilt or innocence, nor does it examine the issues. It punishes radical students. It is not empowered, as Wilson was fond of saying, to hear complaints against the administration. The CRR is an instrument of the Harvard administration designed to punish students. It is only programmed one way. There will never be a CRIMSON headline reading "CRR OVERRULES DEAN MAY-SAVES EVERYONE...
Second, student participation on the CRR is public relations for the administration. Students have little or no part in determining CRR policy. Most important, of course, is the policy which had already been decided by the legislation empowering the CRR to punish only students. But even the CRR policy about its procedures is the handiwork of its faculty members...
Their argument runs as follows: the CRR is supposed to punish students and students only; therefore, the request that the CRR should also consider complaints against administrators is denied because it would force the CRR to rule on "political" questions...
...After reading your story about prisons, I am reminded of what G.B. Shaw once said: "To punish a man you must injure him; to reform a man you must improve him, and men are not improved by injuries...