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Immediately upon reading that the Freshman Council had decided to send delegates to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities rather than to continue the boycott, I dropped the paper and went to the telephone to discuss the matter with the Council moderator. Saddled with a dismaying sense of deja vu, I was prepared to deliver yet again the true story of this infamous would be institution to the eats of someone who had not like myself had the dubious privilege of being here at the time of its formation in the hope, of course, of winning a new convert...
EACH NEW GENERATION of undergraduates learns the hard way about the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). With the reasons behind the decade-long student boycott of this disciplinary group shrouded in the past, College administrators seek every year to slip the CRR past House Committees and the Freshman Council, hoping they've forgotten what the CRR is or why students oppose...
Sometimes--like this year--they are momentarily successful, and one House or another votes to break the boycott, inevitable saying that their goal is to "reform CRR from within." But each time, as knowledge about the CRR's origins and procedures spreads, students have eventually restored the boycott. There is every reason this year for the Adams and South House Committees and the Freshman Council--all of which recently voted to send representatives to CRR--to reverse their votes and resume the boycott...
...tomorrow's protesters, whoever they may be and wherever they may crop up. The only ally the administration has in the CRR debate is ignorance, and the only battles it wins are against the uninformed. As long as students remember the events of 1969, or can educate themselves, the boycott will continue. And maybe some December Dean Epps will get tired of sending around his invitations to join CRR, and the committee will finally be put to rest, the deadest of dead horses...
Once Syria pulled out, it began using its muscle to line up its boycott allies. It had plenty of leverage with the P.L.O., which not only has forces on Syrian territory but also depends on Syria to keep the peace in Lebanon, the Palestinians' main base of operations. According to participants in the negotiation, Assad was blunt with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat. "Is it marriage or divorce?" he asked. Unwilling to risk a break with such an important ally, the P.L.O. sent its regrets with "sorrow." Lebanon was also compliant, recognizing that it would be thrown into chaos...