'Cliffies Get Seats Now; Next Year All Will Pay

This season. Radcliffe students will receive free tickets to the Princeton and Yale football games, just as Harvard students do. Beginning next season, no undergraduates--made or female--will receive free tickets to major home games.

Instead, undergraduates will be able to purchase tickets at a reduced rate of $3.

The Committee on Athletic Sports, which recommended the new ticket policy, began studying undergraduate ticket privileges earlier this fall, when Harvard's failure to give Radcliffe students free tickets to the big games drew charges of unequal treatment.

Subsidies

Two weeks ago, Janet M. Edwards "2, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) said. "We pay the same tuition, which includes athletic fees, as Harvard students. In effect, we've been subsidizing the athletic department."

At the same time, Robert B. Watson '37, director of Athletics said. "The situation is obviously very unfair."

However he expressed concern that an increase in free student tickets would deny alumni of paying seats. "Attending football games can very much affect alumni giving." Watson added.

In studying the problem, the Committee on Athletic Sports accepted as one of its premises that "no reduction in the number of football seats available for sale to alumni would be acceptable." The primary aim of the $3 charge, the committee's report noted, is to "minimize 'non-serious' student takers." In concluding, the committee's report called the fee "an inescapable charge for freedom, fairness and merger."

Next season's big home games will be with Dartmouth and Yale. Undergraduates will receive free tickets for all but these two games.

In order to provide Radcliffe students with free tickets to this year's Princeton game the Athletic Department will have to make as $250 payment to Princeton.