HCUA Polls Express Dissatisfaction With Lamont Staff, Lighting, Hours

HCUA recommended last night that Lamont increase its evening staff, improve its present lighting, and establish an all-night study room. The recommendations were based on the results of the library poll distributed by the HCUA last month. When the HCUA meets next week, it will probably also go on record in favor of establishing a social center.

Sixty-six per cent of the students polled used Lamont in the evening, and many, according to the HCUA, felt that reserve books "were harder to get in the evening because of an insufficient staff."

Better lighting was requested by 57 per cent of the students; the major objections to the present systems were dimness, noise, glare, "depressing glow." To remedy these problems the HUCA suggested the use of table flickers as a practical light fixture.

Pollees asked for an all-night study room in Lamont, but of the 61 per cent in favor of this innovation, more than half indicated they would use such a room only "very occasionally."

The HCUA also called for a re-evaluation of the open reserves.

In a preliminary report, the Social Center Committee recommended the creation of a Harvard-Radcliffe social center. A poll of one Harvard House, two freshman dorms, and two Radcliffe dorms showed that 70 per cent of the undergraduates felt a need for a social center and that almost 75 per cent would use such a meeting place.

Over 75 per cent of those polled rejected the second floor of the Union as a site for the center, with Radcliffe girls being most vocal in their objections, but a section of Holyoke Center found favor in the eyes of 60 per cent.

Many students asked for ping pong, pool, shuffle board, bowling, a snack bar, and a dance floor in the proposed student union.