Students In Poll Reject CRR Bill By Wide Margin

Students in seven Houses rejected the revised Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities by a three to one margin in a non-binding referendum conducted by the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC) last weekend.

However, HRPC reported that only 25 per cent of the House members voted. Seventy per cent of the voters said they were uninformed about the resolution, but still voted on whether or not they approved it.

The results from the other three Houses, the freshman class and Radcliffe have not been tabulated yet.

"We found the basic message of the referendum to be that most people are not informed about the CRR. A large majority of those that answered the poll complained that no attempt had been made to inform them about the issues involved." Steven E. Levy '71, originator of the referendum, said.

The poll asked the student first if he felt informed enough to vote on the CRR resolution and second, if he approved of the resolution.

The informal poll was initiated by the HRPC to provide the Faculty with a sense of undergraduate opinion. The Faculty is scheduled to discuss the resolution today.

Students in Quincy House have organized an ad hoc committee to oppose sending a House representative to the CRR. Quincy House is one of two Harvard Houses scheduled to send a representative to the new CRR.

In a poll taken by the Quincy House Committee, 56 per cent of the students voted against sending a representative to the CRR. Slightly over one-half of the House members voted. The House Committee is not bound to follow these results and will still send a representative to the CRR, a committee member said yesterday.