HUC Committee, Watson Discuss Ban On Mixers

A delegation from the Harvard Undergraduate Council will meet with Dean Watson today to discuss the Faculty Committee on Houses' recent decision to allow only one girls' school--other than Radcliffe--to attend mixers.

The HUC president, Stephen H. Kaplan '69, said the delegation will "try to explore the basis of the decision and attempt to get it rescinded."

Kaplan said he didn't agree with the Faculty Committee's view that mixers should be severely restricted because girls' feelings were hurt and mixers were becoming fund-raising events. He said he realized, however, that mixers did create serious safety problems.

"This meeting is part of our program to investigate the decision-making process at Harvard," Kaplan said. "We will try to figure out just what role the Administration, the Faculty, and student opinion play in these decisions," he said.

Jeffrey C. Alexander '69, vice-president, said, "The HUC can't allow student opinion to be so blatantly ignored on issues of such personal concern to students."

Last Monday, HUC members discussed plans for the coming year which include non-academic audits--investigations of the Office of Graduate and Career Planning, the University Health Services, and the Administrative Board.

The HUC also plans studies of the success of co-education at Harvard and of the problems of the freshman and sophomore years.