Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commission was initially envisioned as a counterpart to the CRR, providing its offices to maintain an atmosphere of trust in which students would find recourse to confrontational protest unlikely. At present, the slanted language of the Resolution makes it impossible for the Commission to serve this function effectively. Still, with the increased prominence given the Commission by the Faculty vote, more pressure can surely be brought to bear--both on the issues of the moment and on the contradictions within the disciplinary process itself...
...course, the Faculty will never allow recommendations of such scope to slip past its veto. It may have approved a review of the Commission's function, but it will never broaden the Commission's powers so that it would upset the Faculty's hierarchical ascendancy. That is too bad, because a strong Commission on Inquiry might ease the problems of student discipline at Harvard. Paul has made the point that the CRR's decision last Spring to acquit the Mass Hall occupiers proves that the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities can be interpreted to include the context of political actions...
...principal function is to be a woman...
...point is the nation's first ombudsman, recently appointed by President Georges Pompidou. On paper, this officer has great freedom and latitude to "improve the relationship between citizens and government administrations." In fact, he will be so tangled in red tape that he will be virtually unable to function...
...designed to enforce the Resolution's provisions concerning free speech and freedom of movement, while the Commission was intended to investigate Administrative unresponsiveness. They were expected to function on an even-handed basis, maintaining a community in which violations of the Resolution were unlikely to occur and meting out fair sanctions against those students who committed such violations...