The Graduate Student Council (GSC) this week voted to support the long-standing boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the body formed after the 1969 takeover of University Hall to handle non-academic disciplinary problems. In a four-point resolution, the GSC said it decided to support the boycott because of what it views as the lack of parity between students and faculty members on the CRR, the committee's willingness to accept heresy evidence, its refusal to allow students appearing before it to have lawyers present, and its refusal to hold open meetings. "In its present form the CRR is unacceptable, and certain modifications must be made before the GSC will recognize it," Herman L. Marshall, GSC president, said after Tuesday's vote.

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University police officers confiscated several marijuana plants early this week from two rooms in Quincy House after they spotted them through windows facing DeWolfe Street. Saul L. Chafin, chicf of University police, said this week that a police sergeant noticed the marijuana and told detectives, who then collected seven plants. The police made no arrests but briefed Elizabeth L. Swain, senior tutor in Quincy, about the incident immediately afterward.

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The Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) continued this week to forge ahead with its comprehensive review of academic rules and regulations by beginning a broad assessment of rules governing study abroad. Many CUE members suggested that the committee vote to transfer authority for approving study abroad plans from academic departments to a new independent committee. CUE, however, will not forward any recommendations to the Faculty Council until at least the spring, when it plans to propose a large package of academic rule revisions.

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The Massachusetts House of Representatives this week passed a bill that would allow the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to build a $60 million genetic engineering laboratory without a public hearing. MGH must complete the laboratory by April 1 to be eligible for a $60 million grant from a German chemical corporation. An aide to the bill's sponsor said this week that the usual public hearing process can take more than a year. The state senate must now vote on the measure.