The following is a summary of the Student Council Report on Student Waiting prepared by a committee of eight undergraduates and adopted by the Student Council last June.

In its previous report the Student Council Committee on Board expressed the opinions that the members of the Houses are not receiving, a fair return for the present board charges and that better meals could be served at lower prices. Since it became clear during the course of this investigation that board rates might possibly be lowered by the partial substitution of students for waitresses, the Committees is issuing this supplementary report on student waiting. Nevertheless, it wishes to emphasize its belief that the question of student waiting is subordinate in importance to the remedying of the dining-hall inefficiency and waste pointed to by evidence in the first report.

The issues involved in student waiting are three-fold:

1. What effect would it have on board rates?

2. What are the arguments for an against it aside from this effect?

3. What is the altitude of House Masters and undergraduates toward student waiting?

I. The Effect upon Board Ratcs

Although University officials are skeptical about the saying in the weekly board rate through the introduction of student waiters, the Committee believes that a saving of between 18 and 25 cents a week per House member would result. . . . But in any case the reduction in board rate through the introduction of student waiters would be slight.

II. Arguments for and Against Student Waiting

Pro:

The chief argument for student waiting is that it would create jobs for about 110 undergraduates who need help to get through college.

Con:

1. The House system was originated to provide common living and eating facilities for upperclassmen, and through the intermingling of students with different interests and backgrounds to promote what President Conant has termed "dinner-table education." Those students who waited on table would be deprived of this privilege half of the time, and on their days off they might find themselves too pressed for time to take full advantage of it.

2. This leads us to the second objection against student waiting, that it would create a social distinction between waiters and non-waiters and would cause an unfortunate feeling of discomfort on both sides.

3. Student waiting might lower the efficiency of the service in the dining-halls.