Quincy House Vote Upholds CRR Boycott

Quincy House students voted 100 to 67 yesterday to continue the House's boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR).

Quincy's vote followed decisions earlier this week by Dunster and Mather Houses to continue the boycott.

Bruce Ferguson '76, chairman of the Quincy House committee, said yesterday the committee will follow the referendum's recommendation and will not begin the process of nominating student representatives to the CRR.

Establishment of CRR

The Faculty established the CRR after the 1969 student occupation of University Hall as a student-Faculty body to discipline students involved in political protests.

However, student representatives resigned from the committee in 1970, beginning the five-year boycott.

In 1971, the Faculty changed the CRR's composition, making student members a minority on the committee and revised the CRR's charter, eliminating procedures that protected student's rights. Since then, Houses have refused to nominate students to serve on the committee.

The Quincy House committee voted Tuesday to begin the process of nominating students for the CRR, but a petition signed by 87 Quincy students forced yesterday's House referendum on the boycott.

Clear Indication

"I think this is a clear indication that students don't feel it is in their interest to nominate student representatives to the CRR," Ferguson said last night.

"They feel that as it stands now, the CRR is objectionable, and the boycott is the best way to try to change it," Ferguson said.

Ferguson said Quincy House will send representatives to a meeting next Tuesday organized by the Dunster House committee to draft proposals to reform the CRR.