Shaffner says CLUH hopes to initiate a campus-wide dialogue about the issue of co-educational rooming. CLUH members say that the present rooming policy is discriminatory becuse it operates on the assumption that all students are heterosexual.

Jewett said last week that the College was not likely to change the rooming policy anytime soon.

But CLUH members say that the College should not wait until they believe a policy of co-habitation is more socially acceptable before they make a change.

"In terms of civil rights, now is the only appropriate time [for change] because it's not a matter of society's norms," says Shaffner. "It's a matter of rights."

Members of the group say they would like to strike a balance between setting their own agenda and responding to complaints of others.

"We don't have a set agenda," says Joshua E. Burstein '93. "We basically like to think that we're just waiting for something to happen so we can react to it. The problem is that there are not real big civil rights issues on campus that just hit you."

CLUH members point to their immediate response to the Minority Student Alliance debate with Epps as evidence of their readiness to respond to students facing constitutional problems with the University.

"We saw it as a censorship issue," says Shaffner. "If Dean Epps starts taking away room privileges from student groups, what's he going to do next? It's a very effective way of silencing students and keeping them from organizing."

After CLUH began its investigation of the Ad Board, several students called CLUH members with stories of their own, Ryan says. Shaffner adds that this weekend, a student denied the right to announce an alternative speech called CLUH members with his complaint.

But still, leaders of CLUH say they would like more students to turn to them when they believe policies at the College may be unconstitutional.

"We don't have a lot of students that just call out of the blue, but we wish that more would call," says Shaffner. "We want them to feel that if their rights have been violated, they can come to us."