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MANY MONTHS AFTER students asked the University to support consumer student boycotts of J.P. Stevens and Nestle Inc. products officially, the Faculty Council last week ruled that the University should in no case recognize a student boycott even if a majority voted for a boycott in a referendum. The Council claims a University sanction of a boycott would violate the University's academic freedom. If President Bok and the Corporation go along with the ruling, the University will once again have succeeded in dodging a moral issue, as it has in the past in its policies on investments and gifts...
...refusing to back a consumer boycott, the Council guarantees that student boycotts will have little impact. In the case of J.P. Stevens sheets used in the University Health Services' infirmary, students have no way of boycotting without University support...
Maurine Freedgood, president of the CBA, said yesterday the group is going to court "to defend our constitutional rights." She said the ordinances barring the Buddhists from holding religious ceremonies at their house at 75 Sparks Street that the City Council passed this summer are unconstitutional because they discriminate on the basis of religion...
...council passed the ordinances after receiving a citizen petition. "We felt that it was changing the character of the neighborhood," Joanna Scott one of the petition's signers, said yesterday. "That house was previously a one-family home in a single-family neighborhood...
...student vote, if it materializes on election day, could significantly help liberal candidates. One student group, the Democratic Socialist Organizaing Committeee, has already endorsed council challenger David Sullivan, a rent control advocate. Other CCA candidates plan some last minute campaigning on campus...