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...midst of a heated debate at Adams House on whether to break the ten-year student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), one undergraduate wondered out loud, "Does anyone really know what's wrong with CRR?" An awkward silence followed...
Apparently Freshman Council and House Committee members at Adams and South House did not believe student objections to CRR were memorable enough to warrant continuing the boycott; and two weeks ago they voted to send representatives to the body--which disciplined students involved in the 1969 political demonstrations, including the takeover of University Hall...
Other students arguing against breaking the boycott asked students to recall CRR's history. "We should remember the Vietnam protests of ten years ago," Barbara M. Watson '81, a House resident, said, adding, "By breaking the boycott we are saying we don't believe in what you worked for. They can set up another committee [to fulfill CRR's function] if they think they need to, but there is no reason now for us to say, yes, we have forgotten...
Johnson said he thought it was "interesting that the people who voted to break the boycott are the same people who can't explain what...
...Freshman Council voted last night to reverse its earlier decision to send members to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), a move which would have ended a ten-year boycott of the student-faculty committee...