H.L.U. Urges Change In Council Elections

Calling for "revision of the Student Council organization along more democratic lines," the Harvard Liberal Union, in a letter yesterday to the undergraduate governing body, requested a meeting with the Council to discuss possible changes in its method of selecting College representatives.

"We do not criticize present membership of the Council, whose work....has been fine in many respects," the letter stated, "but we feel that there is real need at Harvard for a body more truly representative of the students and more directly responsible to them."

"We particularly object to having eight of the 17 members of the Council appointed by the nine members who are elected. The confusion which prevailed during the war has forced the Council to be even more unrepresentative than it normally is. We do not believe that student interests will be adequately represented in the coming important year by continuing the old election-appointment system. Rather, plans should be made now for revision of the Council organization along more democratic lines."

The letter was signed by Charles Sellers, Jr. '45, president of the H.L.U. and was addressed to Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, chairman of the Student Council Summer Committee.