Council Asks Smoker Moderation From '59 Union Committee Vote

Union Committee attempts to abolish the Smoker were held premature by the Student Council last night. By a 7-5 vote, the Council passed a resolution urging the Union Committee to drop for this year a move to legislate the Smoker Committee out of existence.

The Council asked the '59 Union Committee merely to recommend a course of action to next year's Union Committee, instead of taking action itself now. The Council resolution, offered by Merom Brachman '58, asked that action be delayed pending the report of a Council committee now investigating the Smoker.

The Union Committee will not vote until next week.

Unexpectedly, the Council's controversial Food Committee report was not delivered. Chairman Theodore O. Moskowitz '58 was absent from the meeting, but he sent word that the report could not be made because his committee did not yet have the Dining Hall budget. Moskowitz had released some details of the proposed report last week.

More Members Proposed

A surprise constitutional amendment asking that each class Council representation be increased from three to four was introduced by Carl S. Sloane '58, Sloane, explaining his proposal, said that the Council now had much work to do than in the past, and as a result needed more members to do it. His motion was tabled by unanimous vote.

A report on the language requirement was accepted by the Council, but without enthusiasm. Attacked in discussion as "not an intelligent discussion of the problem" and a "garbled mess," the report will not be presented to the Faculty. Brachman blamed the quality of the report on "laxity in the committee" that prepared it.

The report attacks the system of permitting elementary courses to be taught by graduate students, calling such a practice "farming out." Further investigation of the question was planned.