Poll Indicates Skating Rink Wanted by Undergraduates

Students in the College want an ice rink, according to the results of a Student Council poll taken in the Houses yesterday, and they may get one if the plans of a group of students headed by Robert J. Stern '50 are completed.

The organizing students, who want to form a skating club, believe they can get an outside donor to give the $1,800 to $2,000 necessary for the construction of an outside rink on Soldiers Field. Then, if they can get enough interested skaters, the organizers believe they will be able to raise the necessary $600 per year to pay to the Athletic Association for maintainance of the rink.

Only half of the 1300 ballots collected were counted last night, but of these 77 percent indicated that the voter "would be willing to pay one dollar for membership in the non-profit sharing club."

Eight-one percent said they thought there is a need at the College for an ice rink. The rink, which would be strictly a "natural" one dependent on the weather, would be regulation hockey size and could be used by the varsity and House hockey squads. It would be located probably in the stadium or right next to it.

Present plans would make the skating facilities available to all students in the University, their guests, and probably Radcliffe. But because of existing rules for student organizations, any "Skating Club" formed would have to be strictly Harvard students, and 50 percent undergraduates. Eighty-one percent of the ballots counted said the voter "Would favor Radcliffe membership in the skating club.'