Dunster Boycotts CRR; Mather Panel Undecided

The Dunster House committee voted Monday night to continue its boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) and called for a meeting of House representatives next Tuesday to draft "positive proposals" to reform the CRR.

Meanwhile, a Mather House committee was unable to decide last night, after a two-hour meeting, whether to nominate Mather student representatives to the CRR.

The Dunster House committee is the first committee this year to vote to continue the student boycott of the CRR. Most House committee have not yet voted on whether to nominate students for the CRR. Winthrop and Quincy Houses will hold referenda on nominating students to the CRR next week.

Serious Inequities

Members of the Mather committee said last night they all agreed that there were serious inequities in the CRR, but said they could not decide whether a student boycott of the CRR is the most effective means of changing the CRR, and so did not vote on the boycott.

Only six of the 11 members of the Mather panel attended last night's meeting. William H. Hammett '77, a member of the panel, said they would meet again tonight to try to decide whether to nominate students to the CRR.

The Faculty established the CRR after the April 1969 student strike to discipline students involved in political protests, but students have refused to serve on the CRR since 1971.

At that time, the Faculty changed the CRR's composition to include seven Faculty members, four undergraduates, two graduate students, and one senior tutor. The original CRR consisted of three Faculty members and three students.

The Dunster House committee called for the meeting to draft proposals to change the CRR in an open letter to undergraduates. They asked each House and the Freshman Council to send two representatives to the meeting next Tuesday.

"The boycott alone has proven ineffective in bringing about any reform," the committee said in its open letter.

Proposal

"It is time to initiate united action for change. The Dunster House Committee wants a positive proposal to be drafted by all the Houses and presented to the Faculty."

The letter was sent to all House committee chairmen yesterday.

The letter also outlined the Dunster committee's reasons for deciding to continue the boycott of the CRR. "We question the moral legitimacy of the presently structured CRR as a disciplinary body," it said.

The Mather House council chose the 11-member panel by lot last month after Mather students voted 122-111 to begin the process of nominating students to the CRR.

If the panel decides to nominate one or two of its members to serve on the CRR, those nominees' names would be sent to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, and CHUL would them be able to nominate one of them to the CRR.

A decision by the Mather panel to nominate students to the CRR would represent the end of the five-year boycott