Council Head Sees Squeeze Over Parking

The University's increasingly thorough crack-down on student parking was linked last night to "huge pressure from the City of Cambridge in the area of building codes" by Student Council president Edward M. Abramson '56.

"The University is caught in a big squeeze," Abramson said, "since the City could force spending of huge sums of money by refusing to continue current lee-ways in building requirements." Abramson did not restrict this pressure to construction of new buildings.

The Council president spoke in an unsuccessful attempt to gain Council consideration of the parking problem. The parking problem was deleted from last night's agenda, eleven voting for deletion, one against and two abstaining. Abramson is expected to put the item back on next week's agenda, but killed a proposal to hold a special meeting to consider the problem.

In similar action, the Council tabled two more of the agenda's eleven items, failed to come to vote on five, defeated one, refused to reconsider one, and passed one.

Election Day Moved

The single vote of approval came on a proposal to shift the date of electing freshman representatives from May to December. Twelve supported, none opposed, one abstained.

In negative action, the Council voted 8-4-1 against substituting a "direct popular ballot system" for the current preferential system.

Domestic scholarships went the way of the parking problem; they were voted under the table in spite of pleas for action from the Chairman of the Domestic Scholarships Committee and President Abramson.