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Last year, in a similar referenda--one among freshmen and another in Mather House--students also voted to break the boycott. But despite the referendum votes last year, the CRR boycott was maintained. In Mather House, a group of 11 students, chosen at random as the Faculty mandated in its CRR selection procedures, decided not to nominate any of its members for CRR duty. Last year's Freshmen Council, after discussing the close referendum vote, decided to swing in line with the Houses and decided not to begin the selection process. The Freshmen Council could do the same this year...
Along with its boycott, most Faculty members and administrators would much rather see the CRR die as a student issue. The Committee is often viewed as merely a thorn in the administration's side that with time and a local form of "benign neglect" will fade. There is also very little sentiment among Faculty members to change the CRR, and even less to spend time at Faculty meetings discussing...
...THERE STILL remains the questions of the CRR boycott, and particularly the recent freshman vote. Even for those who agree with the basic premise of the CRR--that political demonstrators should be disciplined--it seems delaying nominating students for the CRR until after the Faculty votes on the reform proposals would be the most rational course. In the past, the Faculty has had no incentive other than the boycott to consider the reform or abolition of the CRR as a serious issue, and ending the boycott would erase even that bargaining point...
...those who object in principle to the CRR and who seek its abolition, the end of the boycott would be a perhaps irreparable defeat. Until the CRR issue is resolved this year, however, its opponents should rest assured that the baton has been passed, however weakly...
Three years ago, Libya's ascetic, rabidly anti-Western President Muammar Gaddafi flew into a rage about a mild satire of himself printed by the Turin daily La Stampa. He threatened to have Fiat, the Italian megacompany that owns La Stampa, put on the Arab boycott list unless it fired the paper's Jewish editor, Arrigo Levi. Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli stood by Levi, and the matter was forgotten. Time and oil money, however, can change the political-economic balance of power, and last week Levi had a new story to print. Agnelli announced that he is taking...