HCUA Requests Parietals Change

The extension of freshman parietal hours until midnight "for a limited number of Saturdays per terms" was advocated in a report passed unanimously last night by the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs.

Private parties in freshman rooms would replace the current entry party system, which is attacked in the report as "a bit barbaric." The entry party is generally condemned by freshmen, because it requires the use of an entire entry and thus makes it impossible for anyone to study in the entry on party nights; some freshmen complain that the entry party puts undue pressure on some members of the entry to get dates, the report charges.

Von Stade Pavors Scheme

Under the terms of the HCUA proposal, which Dean Von Stade is reported to favor strongly, party nights would vary from entry to entry, according to a method which would be worked out by the Deans and several members of HCUA. Students would need the approval of their proctor for a party on one of the designated nights.

The report grow out of a study of freshmen last fall. It points out that the average freshman uses parietal hours only once every two or three weeks, and that "Infractions are exceedingly rare, and those that occur are often unintentional."

In the Council's shortest meeting in a year, plans for new investigations were announced, including a study of the information which goes into a student's student's record at Harvard, and the people who have access to this record.