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Bucking tradition, the South House Committee this week unanimously decided that it still wanted to send two student representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). The South House vote--technically a motion of confidence for the House's CRR representatives--countered a trend begun by the Freshman Council and Adams House to rescind their CRR nominations after originally deciding to break the ten-year-long boycott of the disciplinary body. The South House Committee urged its CRR representatives to "work for the reform of CRR from within and without."

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Coffee drinkers, take note: You are more than twice as likely as non-drinkers to contract cancer of the pancreas, according to a School of Public Health (SPH) study released this week. The risk of cancer for coffee drinkers is 2.6 times greater than for non-drinkers in men, and 2.3 times greater in women, the seven-year-long study found. Under the direction of Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the SPH, researchers questioned patients in 11 Boston-area hospitals--369 with cancer of the pancreas and 644 control patients--on their use of tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee.

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President Reagan this week unveiled the final version of his plans for massive cuts in the federal budget, while Harvard administrators and professors warned that some of the reductions will severely hinder research and scientific training at he University. Although funding for social sciences provided by agencies such as the National Science Foundation will suffer most under the Reagan plan. President Bok and others said cuts in aid to students and to hard sciences will also hurt programs at Harvard.