Council Proposes New Student Activity Center

The Student Council last night endorsed 14-2 a motion recommending that President Pusey place "high on the list" of priority construction a new Student Activities Center.

The new building, envisioned as a three story structure with central location, would provide office space and forum rooms to replace the existing Center at 52 Dunster Street.

"We have been knocking at the Administration door all year," said Council President Edward M. Abramson '57, "but until now the time has not been right. Since the University is about to launch a $40 million all out fund raising campaign," he added, however, "the time now appears to be right."

Abramson will forward the Council recommendation to the appropriate administrative officers this week.

Supporting Evidence

In support of the Council's action, Abramson listed six reasons, the most immediate being current crowding in the Dunster Street building and the wave of new organizations gaining Council approval and demanding office space. These embryonic organisms have trouble surviving without regular office space, he asserted.

The existing subsidy of athletics was produced as evidence that the University recognizes financially the importance of extra-curricular activities. In the same connection, the proposed Harvard Theatre, now high on the President's preferred list, was cited.

At the same meeting, the Council voted 9 to 7 against a door-to-door fund drive, which was to be the final effort to save the expiring German Exchange Scholarship Program, and appropriated an estimated $400 to send four delegates to the National Students Association convention in Chicago this summer.