Council Plans New Parietal Probe, Okays Arts Building

The Student Council last night set up a committee to investigate parietal rules and to make now recommendations to the Faculty Committee on Houses. The new proposals will be submitted to the Council next Monday. The Council's vote was a direct result of Yale's decision to extend its parietal rules from 8 to 11 p.m. on all Saturdays.

The Council committee plans to talk with Housemasters to find their reasons for keeping the present deadline of 7 p.m. on weekdays and Sundays and 8 p.m. on Saturdays. Because Yale's present rules were approved after extensive discussion, with the 11 p.m. Saturday deadline coming as a compromise, the Council will ask for a late deadline, probably 12 midnight, on Saturdays, in an effort to compromise with the Housemasters on an earlier hour.

Applications for Student Council scholarships can still be submitted at the Council office at Phillips Brooks House. The deadline is 5 p.m. this Friday.

The Council also accepted a committee report, written by Stephen O. Saxe '51, calling for a Public Arts building which would contain an auditorium for large groups, a radio broadcasting studio, and a modern theatre.

The committee was set up by the Council to look into the needs for a theatre at the University, following a statement in February by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, calling for investigation of the "desirability of providing an adequate auditorium at Harvard."

The Council's committee called for a Public Arts Center instead of just an auditorium because it felt that all forms of mass communication, including the radio and movies, have great student interest.

Meanwhile, it still was not definite whether the University would support the project. It is known that President Conant has suggested several times that the expense of the project would rule it out. On the other hand, several College officials tend to believe that a special gift for the project could be received.