North House Votes Against Name Change

In a House referendum on Sunday and Monday, North House residents defeated a proposal to re-name their House after the late President Conant, members of the North House Committee said yesterday.

The proposal was defeated 67 per cent to 33 per cent, with 188 people voting, Boudinot Atterbury '79, chairman of the election subcommittee, said yesterday.

Nikki Kowalski '78, chairman of the North House Committee said yesterday many students voted against the change because Conant was not directly affiliated with Radcliffe.

Kowalski added there are no plans to bring up the proposal again.

Opponents of the proposal distributed position papers documenting Conant's lack of commitment to co-education and his role in developing the atomic bomb. Atterbury said this may have adversely influenced students.

Atterbury added that some students apparently did not want any name change, while others may have doubted the proposal would gain the approval of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees.

Donald Gardiner '79, one of the originators of the proposal, said yesterday. "It's all come to a sad end."

Michael R. Rhum, a resident of Conant Hall, a graduate student dormitory on Oxford Street, said yesterday it would have been impractical to have two Conant Halls, because the present Conant Hall already receives misdirected mail from Conant laboratories.