Ex-Officio Representation to Be Given P.B.H. by Student Council

First move toward improving the conditions about which the commuters have complained was made last night when the Student Council appointed Eliot D. Canter '35 as an ex-officio member representing the Phillips Brooks House. The investigating committee of Phillips Brooks House, set up on Thursday to consider suggestions made by the discontented non-residents, and to relay these with its own recommendations to University officials, looked upon this as a step toward the immediate improvement of the non-resident's situation. Phillips Brooks House men will, however, hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the matter further.

The action of the Council came as a result of a demand from the commuters for a non-resident representative on the Council. The representative elected last year, Robert C. Hall '36, although listed as living in Newton at the time of his election, deprived the commuters of a non-resident delegate by moving to Lowell House this fall. Until the spring elections have given the commuters an official vote, Canter will support the commuter interests, not as another Council member, taking Hall's place, but merely as an ex-officio representative. Hall will still maintain his place as a Councilman.

The Brooks House committee composed of Frederick A. Webster '35, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Victor H. Kramer '35, vice-president of the Association, E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Student Council, Eliot D. Canter '35, president of the Menorah Society and vice-president of the Engineering Society, Joseph D. Golden '37, and one other member to be elected Monday, is trying to perfect a plan to overcome the feeling that the commuter is now being denied many of the opportunities open to resident members of the College.