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With approximately one-fourth of the class casting ballots, freshmen voted 238 to 154 with 61 abstentions to send representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), making the Class of '82 the third freshman class in a row to break an eight-year boycott of the committee...
Some former student members of the CRR who are attempting to reform the committee have urged students to boycott the CRR until the full Faculty votes to accept reforms barring hearsay evidence, creating an appeals board, and prohibiting legal counsel in hearings...
Walcott said the purchases are "irrelevant right now" because the University had not yet agreed to student demands for a boycott...
...other action, the assembly passed a resolution by a wide margin calling upon students to personally boycott all products manufactured by Nestle Company and reissuing the assembly's request that the University Food Services not purchase Nestle products...
With the South African issue generating increased student protest, many students see the debate over CRR as no longer merely symbolic. Consequently, other Houses will probably join in the boycott in the next few weeks...