Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inherent conflict between the goals of students and the University, and the obvious danger of political repression, lie at the heart of the problems with the reform proposals...
...marriage of popular disinterest with centralized decision-making usually leads to a miscarriage of justice. Indeed, the current CRR reform proposals are deeply flawed and pose a great threat...
...boycott continued until last year, when the Class of 1980 voted to send representatives to the body who promised to work for internal reform. The current reform proposals, now under discussion in the Faculty Council, are the fruit of their boycott-breaking. These proposals include increasing the proportion of student members of the CRR and establishing a small appeals board (both with a Faculty majority); the banning of hearsay evidence; a prohibition on participation by lawyers at CRR hearings (the famed constitutional lawyer Archibald Cox represented the University at the original proceedings); and a policy that would make minutes...
...these problems, we must first closely examine the proposed composition of the CRR (seven faculty, six students). Faculty members will still command a majority. The reform proposals triumphantly note that the faculty chairman "will vote only to break a tie." This is meaningless propaganda: the faculty chairman will vote only when his vote counts. The CRR is small, and a tie is not at all unlikely. Also, students might have to be disqualified, as they were after the 1969 strike, from the CRR, if they participated in the events under judgment, thus increasing the faculty majority. Indeed, 46 per cent...
...control; others are more of his own making. In a free system, no President can control the $2 trillion U.S. economy, but it can be guided and nudged. To date, Carter has been inconsistent on a number of issues; his on-again, off-again proposals for tax rebates and "reform," for example, have eroded business confidence. Both the Panama Canal treaty and the SALT talks have inched fitfully along under previous Administrations; Carter has pushed them hard but has sometimes acted prematurely, failing to soften up opponents in Congress-or the Kremlin...