Council May Permit PBH To Run Drive

Student Council members last night discussed ways to prevent future failures in Combined Charities drives, and hesitantly decided that under Council control, the Phillips Brooks House Association could manage the solicitations with greater success. The executive committee will discuss the drive with Dean Leighton this week.

P.B.H. had urged Larry R. Johnson '57, Council president, that the association's permanent Drive Committee would enable it to run the solicitations more efficiently. P.B.H. vice-president Peter N. Stearns '57 emphasized last night that under this plan the Student Council would have full power to appoint and dismiss the drive chairman.

Some Council members were doubtful that P.B.H. control would improve the drive, since, as vice-president Carl F. Sloane '57 pointed out, about 96 percent of the solicitors for this year's drive were members of the P.B.H. committee. Stearns denied this figure, adding that fewer P.B.H. members helped solicit this year than in the past.

Sloane suggested that the Council consider other methods to raise money besides door-to-door solicitation. He suggested that the drive might begin with a collection at a home football game, contending that "there's no reason why everyone can't put a dime in the can."

General Approval

The general feeling was, however, that if the Council had full control, a drive run by P.B.H. would be a good idea. As one member put it, "people interested in charity gravitate toward P.B.H.; those interested in politics gravitate toward Student Council."

The Council refused to consider the parking report, submitted by a planning firm to the University last fall, until the members had read it. Although it was pointed out that "we approved a more controversial report last week without reading it," (the H.Y.R.C. report) the motion to accept the document's "minimal requirements" was tabled.

No report had yet been received from the H.Y.R.C., on which the Council had planned to base recommendations to the club.