Word: function
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...newly proposed Student-Faculty Committee on Discipline, which is to replace the CRR, would function as a standing body for appeals from the Administrative Board. As long as the new committee will hear appeals in all kinds of cases and will not become a second prosecutory body, it will be a welcome change...
...proposed committee, however, will not solve all the problems with the disciplinary process at Harvard. There are a variety of flaws in the way the Administrative Board operates--among them its closed procedings without witnesses and having members function as both advocate and judge of the accused. The right of appeal to a committee bound to follow fair and open procedures makes the problems with the Ad Board less urgent, but they are real and will have to be addressed...
Reynolds' rhetoric shows how profoundly the Administration misunderstands--or wishes to subvert--the nature and function of the judiciary. Reagan and team are playing games with the Constitution and mocking the court. The real goal, Reynolds has now told us virtually point blank, is not communion with the ideas of the Founding Fathers or a judiciary that defers to the other branches of government, but rather a right-wing Court...
Whether one agrees with these criticisms or not, it should be of concern that an ombudsman, whose function it is to conduct internal reviews of a newspaper's coverage, should have to play the role of commentator because political journalists are in unanimous agreement. That he felt so compelled leads one to wonder if such agreement among journalists would result if the Administration official in question had not been a former television correspondent and if the issue had not been press relations...
...Harvard senior who only associates Robespierre with a popular rock band on campus is hardly an educated individual, and an upperclassman who can't integrate a function is hardly differentiable from a sophisticated high school graduate. This inconsistency between the expectations of a Harvard student and reality stems from an insufficient advising system and a Core Curriculum which does not make enough demands on students...