HCUA Combines H-R Charity Drives

The Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs voted last night to merge the Combined Charities drives of Harvard and Radcliffe, and to meet with the Cambridge Police Department and the Cambridge Traffic Commissioner to protest the Police Department's recent conflacation of student bicycles.

The HCUA decided to form the Harvard-Radcliffe Combined Charities drive after John R. Taylor '65 had pointed out the inadequacy of last year's Radcliffe drive. Taylor said that the merger would cut organizational and operating costs in half.

A motion to solicit contributions for the drive from the Faculty was defeated.

Andrew S. Shaeffer '62, secretary of the Council, proposed that the HCUA appoint a committee to discuss the Police Department's recent raid on student bicycles with Traffic Commissioners Robert Rudolph and Police Chief Daniel Brennan.

Forty Harvard and Radcliffe students had their bicycles locked up at the Central Square police station Thursday, when the Police Department launched a surprise attack against the parking of bikes on public sidewalks.

As one solution to the bicycle problem, Shaeffer suggested that the City reserve parking spaces for bicycles on the streets, with metered areas set aside for motor scooters.

He said that if discussion with representatives of the City proved fruitless, the HCUA might ask all students to bring their bicycles to the Square on the same day as a mass protest. The students could take up all available parking spaces, paying in meter fee but refusing to move the bikes.

A committee composed of Taylor and Neil Minihan '63, president of the HCUA, was appointed, and plans to meet with Rudolph and Brennan tomorrow. The Police Department reportedly plans another raid on bicycles tomorrow.

Joseph M. Russin '64, vice-president, then brought up the question of conflicts in the scheduling of House dances. He said the Dunster House Committee objected strongly to the present method of assigning dances for football weekends by lots, and asked that a committee be appointed to study new ways of allotting dances.