Pusey Creates New Committee To Coordinate Faculties' CRRs

The last link in Harvard's confusing chain of "rights and responsibilities" committees was outlined this week by President Pusey, who announced the creation of a permanent University Committee on Rights and Responsibilities.

UCRR

The UCRR will be the first University-wide judicial committee organized on a standing basis. As recommended in a June 1970 Committee on Governance report to Pusey, the UCRR will:

review problems arising from lower-level rights and responsibilities committees;

recommend structure changes in student-faculty judiciary committees:

prepare a definition of rights and responsibilities, to succeed the statement tentatively approved by the Governing Boards Sept. 20;

coordinate disciplinary procedures for students belonging to different faculties.

33 Members

Pusey reiterated the Committee on Governance's recommendation that members of the UCRR be chosen in large part from previously established committees on rights and responsibilities. The UCRR will have a total of two undergraduates, nine graduate students, and 21 faculty members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the eight professionals schools. Representatives will be chosen independently by each school.

No date was announced for selection of the new committee.