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Several faculty representatives on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) reacted favorably yesterday to the decision of the freshman class to elect four of its members to the committee...
...member panel of freshmen that voted last month to end the six-year student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities did not nominate anyone to the CRR at a panel meeting last week, but the reasons were pragmatic rather than ideological...
Although the freshmen have decided it is more effective to reform the CRR from inside the committee than through the traditional boycott, only six panel members showed up for the meeting Thursday night. So it still isn't clear what conditions, if any, the panel will attach to freshmen participation in the CRR, and won't be until the group's Tuesday meeting, when all 15 members may be present...
Lastly, it should not be supposed beforehand that any effort to reform the CRR is doomed to failure. It certainly can't be any more ineffective than the seven futile years of boycott. If I was before the CRR, I would certainly want at least some student on the Committee. And, if worst came to worst, the students could resign, leaving us no worse off than before...
...boycott of CRR has flopped and is continuing only on its own inertia. Like so many meaningless Harvard traditions, it should be abandoned. Gregory S. Sergienko...