Coop to Study Election Reform

The stockholders of the Harvard Coop voted yesterday to set up a committee to study the procedure of election to the Coop's Board of Directors. Milton P. Brown '40, professor of Retailing at the Business School and president of the Coop, will choose the members of the committee from among the stockholders and directors.

Seven of the Coop's stockholders voted to set up the committee at a meeting at the M.I.T. student center. This meeting is held annually as a formality to approve the slate of candidates for the Board of Directors nominated at a yearly meeting of Coop members. The stockholders yesterday unanimously approved the incumbent Board.

Brown said yesterday that he was "severely distressed by some of the allegations" made by the members of this year's opposition slate. He charged that some of the claims made by the insurgents were "wrong and irresponsible," adding, however, that the Board would look into the grievances of the opposition slate.