Word: rrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't breaking any rules. Anything is a violation of the RRR [the Resolution on Rights and Responsiblities] if Harvard wants to make it that way," asserted Jaron R. Bourke '88, one of the blockaders. The resolution, passed by the Faculty during the height of the anti-war protests in 1970, is designed to protect personal liberties like freedom of speech and movement...
...FUTURE, students charged with violating the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR) ought to have the right to an open hearing and to have legal counsel present at hearings. Under current procedures, whether or not hearings are held fairly or with repect for due process, there is no way to guarantee that they will be, because they take place behind closed doors. By holding hearings in secret, the CRR invites charges of impropriety or unfairness and gives the Harvard community little reason to have faith in the fairness of its proceedings...
...order to earn such faith, the University ought to take steps to ensure fair hearings and the discernment of the facts of events resulting in disciplinary action. In the future, it should allow all students the option of open hearings regarding violations of the RRR. Giving students such a choice without requiring public hearings would at once respect students' rights to privacy under the Buckley Amendment and guarantee them a fair hearing. Moreover, it would demonstrate the University's interest in fairness to the community as a whole and would give the public an opportunity to learn the circumstances surrounding...
...charged with preserving the essential freedoms of speech and movement guaranteed in the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR). Coercive tactics cannot be condoned when rational arguments fail to persuade Harvard students and officials. The task of upholding this incontrovertible principle is exceptionally sensitive, and one that the CRR is especially qualified to fulfill...
Most importantly, however, the CRR impanels a detached and potentially impartial body of students and professors when the University itself is the prosecuting party. To submit disputes involving alleged RRR violations to the conventional disciplinary body would make the administration judge, jury, and executioner in its own case...