Support the Boycott

To the Editors of The Crimson:

On behalf of myself and other alumni/alumnae of the Vietnam War period, I wish to thank the House Committees of Dudley, Eliot, and Winthrop Houses for continuting to boycott the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (as reported December 4). The issue, for those who need to be informed or reminded of the situation, is not whether the CRR stands in need of the "reforms" which have been proposed over the past several years, but whether its existence in any form is legitimate. The CRR was founded for the exclusive purpose of singling out and punishing students who actively protested University involvement in the war and other questionable activities, this punishment being legitimatized by the collaboration of their student peers on the committee. Despite Dean Epps's continued attempts to breathe life into the monster (perhaps in the hope of vindicating his public position of neutrality throughout the war period), the students of Harvard and Radcliffe have never repudiated the student activism of the late sixties by a docile acceptance of the CRR. And, as Professor Wald said last spring, "I hope to God they never will." Bob McCoy '70