Council May Suggest Entertainment Fund To Engage Stars

A three-member committee of the Student Council is investigating possibilities for bringing "publicly-recognized" entertainers to the University, according to Thomas E. Petri '62, chairman of the committee.

A preliminary write-up of the report cites the main reason for the past lack of "big-name" entertainment as the difficulty in obtaining financial backing. Accordingly, it proposes that a fund be created which would be administered by the Student Council and would guarantee that the terms of the performers' contract will be met. Any organization wishing to sponsor a program but having insufficient funds to do so could apply to the Council for backing.

Petri and the other members of the committee, Eugene H. Zagat '61 and Thomas R. Wardell '62, plan to take this "brief" of the report to the chairmen of various student organizations to find out whether or not they would avail themselves of such a service.

Many attempts in the past to do this sort of thing have failed, Edward L. Croman '60, president of the Student Council stated, because people "have ignored the interhouse character of the social structure." If the committee finds that it cannot work within this structure, he continued, the attempt will have to be abandoned as futile.

Petri emphasized that the Council does not necessarily want to arrange the entertainment itself, but merely to provide information for the various student organizations.