In other action last night, the council voted to adopt a report by vice chairman Brian R. Melendez '86 on heckling and freedom of speech. The report urged the college to shift jurisdiction on these matters from the inactive Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), created in 1970, to the Administrative Board, and to allow students to participate in Ad Board discussions on free speech cases.

Students were officially given input into CRR debates in the early '70's, although many subsequently boycotted the committee for ten years, calling it a "court for political crimes."

The report was a response to questions raised about the University's policy after a speech by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 was disrupted by a largely hostile audience of 1200 in November.

In the wake of that incident, College officials sent "warnings" to two of the hecklers, both members of the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League, informing them that similar behavior in the future "will, in all probability, lead to disciplinary action.

Melendez argued that including free speech cases in Ad Board meetings would allow a more consistent system for enforcing College rules on student rights and responsibilities.

But Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said yesterday that there was "strong sentiment in the Faculty not to reintroduce these kinds of matters into the Ad board.

"The Ad Board can function better without dealing with political situations," said Dean of the College John B. Fox '59, chairman of the Ad Board.

Melendez's report also tried to draw a line between what constitutes free expression of dissent at public events and what is an "attempt to snuff out the right of the speaker to speak and the right of the audience to be in he said.

"The University above all should be an oasis of free speech," Melendez said.

The council also refused to adopt a proposal urging the College to institute a '70-30 system for the freshman housing lottery which would have 70 percent of students as signed in the current manner and 30 percent randomly.

Instead, the council voted to ask its representatives on the student-faculty Committee on Housing to abstain from voting on the matter for the rest of the year, to enable more campus-wide debate before any changes in the lottery system are made