Group to Reform CRR Meets, Fails to Pass Any Proposals

A group of House representatives met Tuesday night to draft proposals to reform the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) but could not reach agreement on any substantive resolutions.

The group did pass a motion establishing itself as an ad hoc committee to consider measures to reform the CRR and the student boycott of the CRR.

The resolution asked Houses to confirm officially the members of the ad hoc committee and empower them to vote in the committee as representatives of their Houses.

Laura Johnson '76, chairman of the ad hoc committee, said yesterday that some of the members of the group Tuesday night had not been given authority to vote on reform proposals as House representatives, and that fact prevented the group from passing any specific resolutions.

There was a consensus that the CRR should be reformed, Johnson said, but she added that the group disagreed on the best method of trying to reform the CRR.

The Faculty established the CRR after the 1969 occupation of University Hall as a student-Faculty body to discipline students involved in political protests. However, students have refused to serve on CRR since 1970, protesting that the CRR's procedures do not protect students' rights.

House committees from South, Lowell, and Leverett Houses Tuesday night announced their decision to boycott the CRR, bringing the number of Houses boycotting the CRR to nine.

The Freshman Council Tuesday night announced that freshmen voted 119-86 in a referendum to boycott the CRR, while an additional 105 freshmen indicated they did not know enough about the CRR to vote

The ad hoc committee will meet again next Tuesday to begin drafting specific proposals to reform the CRR.