Council Endorses Rise In Health Service Fee

A proposal by Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, to provide a fund for scholarship students incurring "catastrophic" medical fees was endorsed unanimously last night by the Student Council at its final meeting of the term.

Money for the fund will be provided by a two dollar raise in the medical fee next year, from $68 to $70, a raise which will also provide for an additional physician on duty at Stillman Infirmary at night. The physician will be paid $3,000, and the medical fund will consist of $22,000.

This fund would be set up to aid those "8 to 10 students a year" who incur such high medical hospital expenses that they are totally unable to pay them, Eugene H. Zagat '61 indicated.

Defeat Change of Meeting Times

Later in the evening, the Council quashed a move by President Edward L. Croman '60 to move closer to the House Committees, as it verbally defeated his suggestion to change Council meeting to Thursday night so that House Committees might be able to discuss the Council's weekly agenda at their meetings.

While Croman believed that "this is just the direction the Council ought to move in," other members asserted that it was more important to plan the meetings on a night when the greatest percentage of Council members could attend. The president, who has been attempting all term to promote greater House Committee interest in Council matters, indicated that his colleagues' disapproval was "a big mistake." He added, however, that he would urge the House committees to shift their meeting times so that they could discuss the Council's agenda.

Oppose Uniform Menus

After prolonged discussion, the Council also moved to oppose any uniform menu plan for the Fall, on the basis of "overwhelming" disapproval of the plan by students in Adams, Dunster, and Union dining halls polled in the Collegewide survey last week.