Library Group to Weigh Change in Lamont Rules

An administrative group representing the University libraries will consider change in the Lamont rules to allow students to use reserve books outside the library for a three-hour period during the day.

Meeting this morning, the committee will debate the proposal that was commended by the Student Council Library Committee, and endorsed by the Council at their meeting last night.

In presenting the resolution to the Council last night, Thomas E. Petri '62, chairman of the Committee, noted that it was the only one of six proposals advocated by the Council last year that was not put into effect. He added that a poll taken last year showed the student body to be very heavily in favor of the move.

Figures showed, Petri declared, that the present system of a three-hour allowance of reserve books used inside Lamont, instituted last year as a result of a Council recommendation, has worked very well. Almost 100 per cent of the books now borrowed are returned on time; and there is no reason to assume that books taken out of the library would not be created in the same manner, Petri concluded.

In other business, the Student Council issued a resolution to direct a student committee to make a thorough study of the problem of military service. Headed by Michael Hornblow '62, the committee will seek to present the facts and "allow each man to make his own decision."

The report will include studies on the draft, the processes of deferment, and the structure of the ROTC. University ROTC commanders, presently re-evaluating their own programs, have agreed to co-operate with the Council.

Dining Hall Report Affirmed

The Council also supported the sentiments of the students as expressed in the dining hall poll last week by passing a set of resolutions affirming the present system as superior to any that might include the cutting of allotments on meat, milk and butter.

A proposal advocating installation of more self-service, milk dispensers, and more student help in the dining halls was also ratified. The poll had showed that 87 per cent of the student body could be agreeable to more self-service a means to cutting costs.