HCUA Splits; 62% OK Plan As Few Vote

By a vote if 1278-777, the college has replaced the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs with a two-body student government. The new organization will be set up by the end if the month.

The Houses voted more than 2-1 in favour of the referendum with a total tally of 987-441, but the freshmen narrowed the margin with a 291-336 vote against the plan. The Yardlings were credited with the defeat of a similar proposal in January when they cast a lopsided 90-431 vote against the HCUA split.

H. Reed Ellis '65 chairman of the old HCUA, said last night that he will write a letter to each senior tutor asking him to select a student from his House to serve on the new Harvard Policy Committee chairman, who will serve on the Harvard Undergraduate council, that the council's first meeting will be held sometime during the last week of February.

Step Forward

Ellis called the vote a step toward a more effective student government. "I am pleased," he said, "that the new organisations will be given an opportunity to show that they can be effective voices of student opinion."

A provision is the new constitution provides that within one year a referendum must be held to determine whether a majority of the student body wants the new government to remain in effect.

The HPC is designed to express student opinion to the Faculty about long range educational policy. Areas with which Ellis especially hopes the committee will deal include Harvard's exam system, the lecture-section system, and the general relationship between the college and the University.

Ellis also said that he believes the close relationship already set up between the Masters and the house committee chairmen who will serve on the HUC will help make the undergraduate council effective.