Monday the Student Council released full text of the report on the College Wide Committees to Re-Examine the Student Council. Under the chairmanship of Charles R. Brynteson '50 and Walter B. Raushenbush '520 the investigating group analyzed the relations of the student Council to: the College administration; the House system; semi-public corporations (National Students Association, elections and membership, and public relations. Below are excerpts from the report.

College Administration

The function of Harvard's Student Council in its relations with the administration is to suggest changes in University policy and to criticize and advise upon innovations which the administration is considering. In the first aspect the Council goes to the administration with student grievances or possible improvements; in the second, the administration comes to the Council to discover how subjects will react to or he affected by proposed changes.

A "gentleman's agreement" with the Dean's office exists which states "that no major change in educational policy or in rules and regulations of the College will be made without first consulting the Council and seeking it advice." Actually the Council's activities have been broader than the agreement indicates, for all departments of the University have used the Council as a sounding board of student opinion, and all suggested changes originating with the Council have received the serious consideration of the faculty.

Athletic System Sound

Interhouse athletics are an important part of the House scene and are described fully in an appendix to this report written by Robert Claflin '50. But this committee feels strongly that the present interhouse athletic setup is working remarkably well without any noticeable Council supervision or intervention.

A discussion of the Interhouse Committee and the several houses, with related recommendations, will be found in the appendix. But recommendations relevant to the Council follow:

1. The Constitution requirement that an ex-officio representative to the Committee from the Council sit at Committe meetings should be regularly fulfilled, so that the Council may be informed on this important phase of college activity.

2. This representative to the Committee should make a brief report to the Council following each Committee meeting, and should regularly report back to the Committee as to Council criticism and recommendations.

3. The Committee's Constitution should be amended so that continuity of the Committee and responsibility for its initial operations each fall should be the job of the Council, not that of the Union Committee representative of the preceding year.

Individual Houses

Regarding Relations between the individual Houses and the Council:

1. The House Representative to the Council should attend all meetings of the House Committee in his House, either as a full or as an ex-officio member, both to inform himself of House activities and to report relevant information on Council doings.

2. The House representative to the Council should hold weekly office hours, and might well make use of a suggestion box to sound out directly the members of the House on both Council and House Committee matters. (Suggestions should of course be signed.)

3. Information gathered from attendance at House Committee meetings and from contact with house members be presented in a formal monthly report (brief, however) to the Council by each House representative.