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Several of the 23 Harvard students who attended the conference said yesterday they agree with the group that sponsored the boycott that both the conference and the 10 colleges that participated in it are "institutionally racist...
...started innocently enough. Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, wrote a letter to Corey B. Stone '79, a resident of Lowell House who had been corresponding with Calkins about a boycott of Nestle Corporation products. Calkins said that Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, told him the University would not boycott any corporate product...
...however. Wyatt said he was sure the student-faculty committee had formulated this policy. "I don't remember who said it," Wyatt said about a meeting he had with the committee in December, "but some one mentioned that the University as an institution was no longer being asked to boycott a product...
Established in the wake of the April 1969 student strike as a student-Faculty committee to discipline political demonstrators, the CRR was boycotted by undergraduates from 1970 to 1977. Although the boycott began more because student members of the committee felt personally uncomfortable disciplining fellow students than because of organized protest, the boycott quickly became an expression of student dissatisfaction with the CRR's structure and procedures...
...Faculty last week solved--or even addressed--the problems of the CRR that make its abolition imperative. The CRR's creation was a mistake that the Faculty can remedy only by repealing the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities and abolishing the CRR. Until that happens, the student boycott must continue...