Commission Hears Case Against CRR

The Commission of Inquiry is investigating complaints lodged against the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR).

The complaints were registered by Sanford Kreisberg, a fourth-year graduate student in English. They concern readmission procedures in cases of students who had previously been required to leave the University and now wanted to return. Last Fall the CRR handled only cases of this type.

In his letter to the Commission, Kreisberg criticized the CRR's criterion for readmission-existence of a "potential danger of further violation"-as "vague and undefined," "arbitrary and capricious," and "ex post facto."

In addition, "the criterion seeks to make a judgment of political ideas," Kreisberg wrote. "It should seem clear that any test programmed to uncover a possible potential to violate the Resolution of Rights and Responsibilities is an awkward and transparent disguise really intended to determine and judge the student's political and moral ideas."

The CRR members have agreed to meet with the Commission of Inquiry on Friday afternoon. At that meeting, the Commission "wants to find out from the whole CRR what the readmission procedures are," Roger Rosenblatt, Commission chairman, said last night.

"One of the things that seems to be at issue is whether Anderson [Donald G. Anderson, CRR chairman] was giving his own opinion or the CRR's opinion when Kreisberg questioned him on readmission procedures," Rosenblatt said. "That's why we want to talk to the whole Committee."

Rosenblatt said that if the CRR members differed "conceptually" in their attitudes towards readmissions, he would consider asking the Faculty Council to examine the issue further.

Created last Fall, the Commission of Inquiry has only advisory and mediatory powers. It cannot enforce its decisions.