CHUL Judges Charity Fund Future Today

The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) will vote tomorrow on a Philip Brooks House proposal to reactivate the Harvard Combined Charities Drive. The Drive was last conducted in 1969.

The Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) ran the drive until the Council dissolved two years ago. Amid the confusion of shifting student government responsibilities from the HUC to the CHUL, no organization took charge of the fund raising.

During the decade that it ran, the drive collected about $40,000 a year. The Philip Brooks House Association (PBHA)--which netted about $6000 annually from the drive--and other local charities depended on the drive for vitally needed funds.

Deficit

Fearing that Harvard will no longer help subsidize its projects, PBHA sees the combined charities drive as one way of making up the deficit.

Michael D. Robinson '71-4, President of PBH, said that Harvard has reduced its PBHA subsidy by more than $6000 in the past three years, and that without additional funds, PBHA will have to withdraw support from several important programs.

Robinson said last night that. "Dean Dunlop has told us that we must seek the financial support of the undergraduates. The combined charities drive seems an ideal project, but we need the help of CHUL to run it."

"The drive has to be a community effort, because PBH doesn't have the facilities to run it, and other charities deserve a cut," he added.

Robinson is not optimistic that CHUL will decide to help with the drive. "When I presented my case, at the October 6 meeting of the committee, many of the masters objected to PBHA receiving a large share of the money which is a shame since it all goes to charity."