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North House Votes To Stop Boycotting Student Assembly

By Alan Cooperman

The North House Committee voted yesterday to end its boycott of the Student Assembly because the assembly has agreed to hold a College-wide referendum on political parties. Susan K McConnell, chairman of the committee, said yesterday.

The assembly voted at its last meeting before spring vacation to poll students in the dining halls next week on various campus issues, including whether political parties should exist in the assembly.

Most of North House's assembly delegates have refused to vote or speak at full meetings of the assembly since March 4, when their House Committee formally recommended that they boycott the assembly.

Hegemony

The committee members charged at that time that the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU) controlled the assembly, and they subsequently demanded that the assembly hold a referendum on political parties.

"We wanted to make a strong impact, to make the assembly think," McConnell said. "The assembly's decision to hold the referendum means we've accomplished something positive by means of the boycott, but I think that now we can make changes better working from the inside than from the outside," she added.

South Caucus

The South House Committee, which had also voted to recommend a boycott of the assembly last month, revoked that recommendation after the assembly voted to hold the referendum. The committee will poll South House students today and tomorrow, however, on whether the boycott should be reinstated.

Maxine S. Pfeffer '81, chairman of the assembly, said yesterday she is pleased the boycotts have ended. "It's an indication that students take the assembly's potential seriously," she said.

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