Meal Rebate for Panthers Demanded by 400 Students

More than 400 students have signed a petition circulated by members of the November Action Committee, pledging that they will not eat in University dining halls on Wednesdays from now until the end of the year and instructing the University to give rebates on the meals missed to the Black Panther Party.

If the plan is approved by this Wednesday, as NAC has requested, the rebates could exceed $3000.

However, approval by the University of the rebate plan-which NAC members hope to obtain before next Wednesday-will probably be delayed until a subcommittee, as yet unnamed, of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life can meet and consider the plan.

Dean May said yesterday that the full Committee-which includes students, Faculty, and Administrators, and is chaired by Dean Dunlop-had decided earlier this month that the question of rebates was too complicated to be resolved by the 27-member group, and voted to consider the request in a subcommittee.

If the subcommittee approves the plan, it will be submitted to the full committee, which is scheduled to meet May 6, May said. If approved there, it must be submitted to Dean Dunlop and then to L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the College. After final approval of the measure, administrators must give ten working days' notice to the University Food Services

before the rebates can go into effect.

NAC representatives met with Dean Dunlop yesterday and asked him to call a special meeting of the full committee early next week to consider the proposal. May said, however, that the full committee could not take up the rebate question until the subcommittee makes a recommendation.

A similar proposal last December by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, approved by the now-defunct Committee on Houses, noticed the group $1.57 per student for four meals rebated, May said. With 400 signatures now on the petition, the NAC plan could net the Panthers as much as $3300 by those figures-if put into effect by next Wednesday. Each week's delay would reduce that by about $480.

NAC spokesman said the group-which is still canvassing dining halls for signatures on the petition-would probably hold some form of demonstration Monday to show student support for the rebate.