Yardling Council Ends Parietals, Acts to Join With 'Cliffe Council

The Freshman Council, in a burst of activity, voted for 24-hour parietals for freshman dorms, issued a statement questioning the legitimacy of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, and moved to merge with the Radcliffe Council.

The vote to end all parietal restrictions for freshmen came a day after the Faculty transferred jurisdiction over parietals to the Houses and the Freshman Council. The Council was the first student group to use its new power by abolishing all parietal restrictions.

The Council also moved in the same meeting Wednesday night to revise its constitution to permit a merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe Freshman Councils.

Legitimacy

The Council's policy committee, by a vote of 12 to 2 with 4 abstentions, issued a statement expressing "serious doubts" about the legitimacy of the Committee of Rights and Resposibilities. It called for the reinstatement of the students suspended for their participation in the Nov. 19 SDS sit in "until the legitimacy of the board is determined."

C. Clark Easter, president of the Freshman Council, said the councils are merging in anticipation of freshman coeducation, but added, "The council cannot do very much about coeducation this year, because of Faculty limitations on experimentations. Our thinking is along the lines of informal social activities to bring Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen together."

Easter said the councils have already drawn up several programs. "We hope to secure equal eating rights for the Radcliffe freshmen: if the council is successful, the Union Dining Hall would be open to Cliffies."

Freshman Cliffies will also participate in the Jubilee Weekend for the first time. In previous years Harvard freshmen organized the Jubilee alone and Cliffies attended only as dates. This year Cliffies will join in organizing the Jubilee and will invite their own dates.

The council plans to sponsor a film program modeled after the house film programs and a variety of "happenings." Anything to get Cliffies down into the Yard," Easter said.

Vote reapportionment, merger of treasuries and other technical problems will slow complete merger but should pose little difficulty, Easter said. The Council will debate the amendment and most likely vote at next Wednesday's meeting.