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...students involved in drawing up the original reforms in 1977 did not. Laura S. Besvinick '80, who was one of four students on the CRR in 1977 and member of the first class to break the boycott, said yesterday the final CRR legislation, which passed the Faculty Council last December, is a sadly diluted version of their earlier package of reforms. The Council vetoed the recommended reforms to bar hearsay evidence from CRR hearings and to create an appeals board. The Council did agree to eliminate legal counsel at hearings and to set up guidelines for release of taped transcripts...
Just before the Faculty approved the reforms of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the present chairman of the CRR rose to announce his hope that students might finally see fit to end their intermittent eight-year boycott of the committee...
...some House committee chairmen, who originally voted to boycott CRR again this year, found the Faculty vote more encouraging. Susan McConnell '79, chairman of the North House committee, said yesterday the committee would soon review its decision to support the boycott, in view of the Faculty vote...
After some disucssion, the committee voted 16-8 in favor of the boycott. "Even people who voted against the boycott agreed that the ACSR has problems. They thought the boycott might not be the best way to solve them," John P. Zavez '80, UCHSR representative to the committee, said last night...
...Kirkland House Committee voted specifically to support the boycott, and did not discuss the reforms extensively, Zavez said...