In another development, CHUL rejected 14 to 15 a motion to discuss and vote on a North House resolution calling for the use of lotteries for housing transfers.

Under the current transfer system, if Housing Office guidelines fail to distinguish between transfer applicants, masters may choose among applicants on whatever basis they desire.

Most of those who wanted to discuss the North House resolution were students, while most who voted against such a discussion were masters.

Union Closing

Several students criticized the closing of the Union to upperclassmen, claiming it inconvenienced upperclassmen who live in Houses far from the Yard and resulted in increased crowding at the closer Houses.

Megan Lesser '78, the Leverett House CHUL representative, said at the meeting more students were eating lunch at Leverett than last year, including a large number of Quad residents.

"Houses like Leverett are absorbing the people from the Quad and Mather House, who don't have time to go back for lunch," she said, adding "There are lines at Leverett that weren't there last year."

Joseph F. Savage Jr. '78, Quincy House CHUL representative, said the influx of interhouse patrons might spur some Houses to restrict interhouse at lunch.

"I don't want this to break down to guerilla warfare between the Houses," he said.

Savage said visits to the Union at lunchtime had convinced him that it could serve more students than it now does during off-peak hours.

Weissbecker presented figures showing that on two recent days, about 200 fewer students ate lunch at the Union this year than ate there on the same two dates last year.

"One might infer that these 200 are the upperclassmen." Rosovsky said