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...Spence noted in Wednesday's Faculty meeting, Harvard is to blame for the unfortunate timing of student nominations. In 1980, after 10 years of student boycott, the College discontinued its annual invitation for Houses to nominate student delegates...
...still in high school, no undergraduate has any reason to know that the CRR even existed, much less that it was boycotted. The College cannot expect undergraduates to take time out of exam period to plow through 16 years of history to decide whether they want to continue the boycott...
...Harvard administration is not likely to respect the House committees' and The Crimson's demand to postpone convening the CRR solely because students need more time to decide whether or not to boycott. In their eyes, the CRR is legitimate and therefore a boycott should not be an option to begin with. We must shift the emphasis of the discussion because there are persuasive reasons for the administration to wait...
...since 1980, as The Crimson reported on May 10. Under its ordinary procedure, the administration would have asked the House committees to send delegates in the fall. By suspending the invitation, presumably to spare itself the embarrassment of continued rebuff, the administration has de facto imposed the boycott on itself. As a result, the issues surrounding the CRR are new even to seniors...
There are many issues concerning the CRR other than a possible boycott. For example, people have raised questions about the committee's use of hearsay evidence. One action the students might take instead of a boycott is to send representatives with specific instructions to modify this policy. There's a whole range of issues and a whole range of legitimate action that only happens to include not sending any representatives...