Lunch Interhouse Limited; Colt Will Review Decision

Radcliffe residents may once again find themselves stranded in the Yard during lunch hours as a result of a decision by the Committee on Houses to discontinue last Spring's interhouse experiment.

There will be no interhouse for lunch in either the Harvard or the Radcliffe Houses during the week. Harvard and Radcliffe upperclassmen may eat weekday lunches in the Freshman Union from 11:30 to noon and 1:30 to 1:45 p.m. only. Radcliffe residents will still be permitted to eat lunch on interhouse at the Graduate Center.

Interhouse dinners between the two campuses will be permitted on the same basis as before: weekends in the Harvard Houses and weekday nights in the Radcliffe dining halls.

Jeopardized Houses

The extension of last Spring's arrangement which allowed Harvard students to eat lunch at Radcliffe on weekdays and which offered all Radcliffe students the option of eating lunch at an assigned Harvard House was rejected by the COH on the grounds that it would jeopardize the House system.

"The same reasons existed last Spring," Dean May said last night. "Radcliffe Students eating lunch at Harvard was leading to a great deal of overcrowding in the House dining halls as well as to a partial closing of one or more of the Radcliffe dining halls."

Though the Committee on Houses was reported to be nearly unanimously in favor of maintaining interhouse at pre-experimental levels, the decision will be reviewed at the Committee's next meeting when Radcliffe student representatives will be present. Radcliffe representatives had not been elected in time for the last meeting, though the three Radcliffe masters and an RUS observer attended.

Douglass Tucci '71, chairman of the Subcommittee on Education which reviewed the interhouse plan before it was presented to the COH, said that the underlying issue was the survival of the House system.

"By allowing the Houses to accommodate an enormous number of transients, we would end up with 14 restaurants, something quite contrary to the idea of the House as a small, intimate, stable and diverse group of people, which is the way most students still want to manage it," Tucci said.