Assembly Votes To Investigate Library Issue

The Student Assembly last night voted to form a subcommittee to study the possibility of renaming the Kennedy School's Charles Engelhard Library of Public Affairs.

The assembly also passed a resolution criticizing the University for distributing free toilet paper only to the three Radcliffe Quadrangle Houses and asking the University to provide free toilet paper to all dormitories.

Robert E. Grady '80, a Quincy representative who introduced the resolution to form a subcommittee to study the Engelhard issue, also tried to introduce a resolution condemning the Kennedy School for naming the library after an American mining enterpreneur criticized for his support of apartheid in South Africa.

The resolution also urged the Kennedy School to return a $1 million grant from the Engelhard Foundation that helped build the library.

Grady made the motion toward the end of the meeting after many delegates had left. He agreed to submit the proposal forming a subcommittee when students threatened to call a quorum which would have blocked a vote on the stronger motion.

Assembly officers promised Grady he could make a motion condemning the Kennedy School at the beginning of the next week's assembly meeting.

William G. Mayer '79, an Adams representative, said after Grady introduced his original resolution, "It's a rotten precedent to vote on an important issue when the majority of members are not here."

Earlier in the meeting, assembly members voted 28-19 with four abstentions to table a motion and amendment to send a letter to President Bok asking him, Dean Rosovsky, Dean Fox and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, to participate in an open forum with students.

Fred Haber '79, who made the motion to table the issue, said, "If we have a lot of people screaming question at four administrators in Sanders Theatre, they'll just be able to pass the buck back and forth between one another.