Quincy Seeks to Halt Lighting Crisis

The University's most modern Houses are draining exorbitant sums of money from the University's pockets, but nobody seems to know what to do about it.

Unconfirmed reports yesterday indicated that the Leverett House lighting bill has reached $38,000, and the Quincy bill $27,000. And reliable sources in Dunster expressed confidence that both bills would climb still higher.

Members of the two extravagant Houses held whispered conferences in the corners of Lamont all day yesterday in an effort to prevent the impending lighting crisis. John M. Bullitt '42, Master of Quincy, stood on tiptoe in students' rooms to unscrew light bulbs, hoping to save lighting expenses through lack of illumination.

Refrigerators and elevators in the new Houses are raising the bill, too. Conscientious students, reports indicate, have been speaking up the stairs to their rooms and keeping their beer in the bath tub.

But unfortunately, all the students are not conscientious. As a member of the Quincy House Committee declared sorrowfully. "You can't get students to be community minded if they're not psychologically motivated that way." One member of the House has suggested forming a Motivation Committee to help reduce the lighting bill.

A hurried meeting of the House Committee Monday night produced "no solution," a member said. Anonymous students on the Committee reportedly feel the ultimate solution will be putting smaller light bulbs in the Quincy sockets.