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...continues to discipline students despite these objections and the student boycott. Last June, for example, the CRR admonished six students involved in a six-hour sit-in outside President Bok's office. Clearly the boycott has been ineffective in spurring the Faculty to change the CRR's structure and procedures...
...student boycott is not enough, however, to cure the ills of the CRR, since the committee continues to exist and function without student representation. Last spring, for example, the CRR ruled on the cases of six students involved in the DuBois Institute Student Coalition's May sit-in outside President Bok's office. The students, who should have been found innocent, were declared guilty of interfering in the operation of the University and had letters of reprimand placed in their files as punishment...
...committee hadn't been dead, however, Last June the CRR placed letters of reprimand in the files of six students who were part of the DuBois Institute Student Coalition sit-in at President Bok's office last...
...last week, by one estimate, reached an explosive 1 million, touching off a rash of strikes by angry workers at post offices, subways and electric utilities. Riot cops were called to sweep Air France employees out of ground facilities at the Paris airports, where they were staging a sit-in strike. Giscard's policy has also spurred consumer-price inflation, which inched up to an annual rate of 9.4% in September, almost a percentage point over that of a month before...
...society's goal is to stimulate intellectual debate, not to take militant political action. "We don't sit-in, walk-out, or blow-up," Kesler said...