Students Meet Dean May, Deliberate Future of CRR

Harvard and Radcliffe students will meet in two weeks to consider the future of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) and other disciplinary boards within the University.

The action was decided upon after students and administrators met yesterday for two hours in University Hall. They decided that the student representatives, mostly House Committee chairmen, should return to their Houses to consider issues such as the appropriate body to discuss the CRR, the legitimacy of such a body, and student representation on it.

The CRR, set up after the 1969 strike to deal with disciplinary matters within the University, received a severe blow when Harvard and Radcliffe Houses voted in the past few weeks not to send representatives to sit on it.

Dean Dunlop and Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, were also present at the meeting.

Dunlop said, "Some of our discussion was substantive, but our main concern was to bring up the proper questions for the next meeting. We are very eager to have this discussed among the student body."

John V. Crues '72, chairman of the Eliot House Committee, said that most people at the meeting felt "there should be some new committee to replace the CRR and there should be some way for the University to discipline its members."

Since it began, the CRR has required 56 students to leave the University, issued 58 suspended requirements to withdraw, and handed out 131 warnings.

Cambridge Police

In the memorandum calling for yesterday's meeting, May, Dunlop, and Bunting suggested that extreme disciplinary problems might be turned over to the Cambridge police for prosecution, since such violations would be crimes under Massachusetts statutes.