70% of Students Favor Extension Of Friday Night Parietal Hours

Over 70 per cent of the undergraduate body favors extension of Friday evening parietal hours, according to a recent Student Council-sponsored poll. In the survey, taken in the Houses and among Freshmen, only one quarter of the students did not favor any change in parietal hours.

"With the results of the poll, we feel a compulsion to press for an extension on Friday evenings," Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61, chairman of the Council Committee on Parietal Hours, stated yesterday. He indicated that the polls would be forwarded to the House Masters "as an indictor of student feeling on the matter."

The Council Committee may propose elimination of parietal privileges one afternoon per week so that Friday hours, currently 4-7 p.m., may continue until 10 p.m. Jacobs pointed out that the Council Committee is still tabulating polls, and will not press for extension until the results are complete.

The poll indicated that about 40 per cent of students use parietal privileges at least one afternoon per week, "so that any elimination of afternoon parietal hours would not be advisable," Jacobs stated. Members of Lowell House do the least afternoon entertaining of female guests, with 54.5 per cent of House members never using parietal privileges. At the other end of the spectrum, only 31.2 per cent of Adams House members do not entertain afternoon guests, the poll revealed.