Council, Key Provide '59 Advisers

Upperclass advisers may be available to all College freshmen next year, Student Council and Crimson Key officials said yesterday. At present, only Dudley freshmen have both upperclass and official advisers.

The Student Council will provide advisers if a forthcoming Freshman Year Report indicates a need for them, according to John R. Green '56, Student Council president. Report Committee chairman John F. Merrifield '55 said, "There is a good chance that the Report will consider such an advising system. I think it would be a very good thing." The Report is expected to appear in April.

Earlier this year the Student Council considered operating an advising plan for the present freshman class, in conjunction with the Crimson Key Society, Clifford L. Alexander '55, former Council president, said. The Council decided against the idea because there was insufficient time to prepare a workable system, he explained.

The Crimson Key Society will probably organize an advising system, if asked to by the Student Council, William D. Coakley '55, Key president, said. "Freshman advising is the type f activity the Key is interested in," he continued.

Von Stade Favorable

Both Freshman Dean F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38 and Vernon Patrick, Jr. '52, Stade, Jr. '38 and Vernon Patrick, Jr. '52, secretary of the Freshman Union, expressed a favorable reaction to an upperclass advising system, although von Stade favored a plan of limited seeps.

Patrick also felt that an advising system might prove effective, although he cautioned against upperclass advisers attempting to assume the role of regular advisers.