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...ACTIVISTS, after several years of lassitude, have finally show a some backbone. Where are the conservatives and ever-indignant defenders of the Constitution?--hiding behind the CRR, a body that is inconsistent with principles of due process, principles the CRR was ostensibly created to uphold...
Conservatives should oppose the CRR on the grounds that it is a pitiful parody of due process and a weak and arbitrary defense of free speech on campus. They should demand that the University uphold their right to free speech by arresting students who are in clear violation of the law. They should demand that the University show its backbone by administering discipline directly and not through an illegitimate child of a past...
Students have termed the committee "illegitimate." But it is only following orders to uphold a piece of University legislation known as the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR). Much of the problem with the CRR stems from the fact that the RRR is vague enough to allow students to be prosecuted for their political beliefs CRR opponents wrongly claim that the committee's preconceived purpose is to stifle political dissent. This is factually incorrect in two respects...
...Board--like the CRR--has authority to uphold the RRR and to levy the same range of punishments against students. But the Ad Board, unlike the CRR, takes these measures without student input, does not allow students (except on an appeal) to appear in person before it to defend their actions, and does not have the same ability to handle mass offenses...
...Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts to a ritual vow to uphold free trade and shun any turn toward protectionism. Those vows are never perfectly kept; every country has in fact taken protectionist action. But barriers to trade would probably have been raised much higher had it not been for the leaders' repeated public commitments...