Von Stade Will Distribute Guidelines For Freshman Parties to Proctors

Freshman proctors will receive guidelines Wednesday or Thursday for regulating dormitory parties, F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of freshmen, said yesterday.

The guidelines, which von Stade called a "rewording" of Freshman Council recommendations made last week, are directed at limiting who may attend a dormitory party. Depending upon how closely they do parallel the Council guidelines, von Stade's guidelines will probably recommend specifically that:

* Proctors bar from parties unescorted girls and those boys whose names have not previously been submitted to them on a guest list.

* With respect to open parties, proctors set a limit beforehand to the number of guests and require members of the proctorial unit to assume responsibility for any non-Harvard guests.

* To enforce these guest limitations, proctors, or some other specifically designated person, guard the door at all times during a party.

The action follows the banning of freshman parties last weekend by von Stade to enable the Administration to seek means of curbing party crashing by outsiders. He laid partial blame on crashers for the wild parties in the Yard two weekends ago.

The Freshman Council submitted its suggestions to the freshman proctors last Thursday. Von Stade praised the Council for the "remarkable responsibility and imagination" of their suggestions.

Von Stade said that the different problems posed by the different dormitories--"the geography alone of the various dorms"--would preclude a rigid, Yard-wide application of the guidelines. The extent to which the proposals are adopted will remain largely a matter of discretion for the individual proctor.