Two Houses Soon to End CRR Boycott

At least two House Committees will lift a three-year boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) by nominating students to sit on the CRR.

Lowell House Committee voted Monday night not to continue the boycott, Frederick M. Scott '80, chairman of the committee, said yesterday. No one at Tuesday night's South House Committee meeting objected to electing CRR representatives. Angel R. Leon '80, a member of the committee, said yesterday.

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The Faculty formed the CRR in 1969 to consider cases of students charged with disrupting the University during the student strikes in April 1969.

House Committee chairmen this week received a letter from Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, outlining nomination procedures for student groups, including the CRR. Nominations are due Wednesday.

Michael J.W. Rennock '81, a member of the Eliot House Committee, which Monday decided to hold a House referendum on whether to continue the boycott, said yesterday other election procedures may bury the boycott issue.

"I think Dean Epps was awfully smart about it. He tried to sneak it in under the rug." Rennock said.

Epps said yesterday he would be willing to consider requests to postpone the deadline for nominations, especially since committee chairmen did not receive the letter until they returned from Thanksgiving break.

"I would want students to feel they could get the whole history of attempts to reform the CRR," he added.

Three years ago, freshmen in the Class of '80 broke a boycott that had been in effect since founding of the CRR. The freshmen joined the committee to reform it.

Last fall the students sumbitted five reforms to the Faculty, including equalizing student-faculty composition, prohibiting legal counsel if both parties agree allowing the release of transcripts if both parties agree, establishing a board of appeals, and barring hearsay evidence.

The Faculty approved the first three, on the recommendation of the Faculty Council, but refused to support establishing an appeals board or barring hearsay evidence.

Leverett will consider whether to continue the boycott tonight, and Quincy plans to postpone consideration until a week from Sunday, those House committee chairmen said yesterday.

Several other House Committee chairmen said yesterday they have not had time to read Epps' letter yet.

The Student Assembly, which supported the reforms last fall, has not yet discussed the question this year, Stephan Carter '80, chairman of the assembly's Student Rights Committee, said yesterday