Static in the Stadium

With the football season only a few months away, the thousand men who signed the petition for broadcasting games are wondering just what was the outcome of the issue. By now the College realizes the consequences of a $40,000 budget slice and also is aware that three minutes of advertising per game would offset this calamity. But two months of silence have followed the last public announcement.

Early in March collegiate agitation brought the matter to the attention of the Student Council. The Council unanimously decided in favor of broadcasting, passed the bill on to the Corporation and--waited. The Council saw that it was not logical to shelve a large income for fear of "commercializing". Harvard football. For it knew there was no sense in asking three-thirty for seats, putting an exorbitant tax on concessions and then drawing the line in front of the mike for the sake of amateurism. There seems to be no reasonable objection from the undergraduate body to radioing the ball games on the large networks. Further-more, innumerable Alumni all over the country would like to tune in on those Harlow spinners and end sweeps. And so with the budget axe falling nearer the sports-lovers' heads, next fall's fans ask the responsible men or man to break the news.