Gomes, a member of the Advisory and Counseling Task Force that recommended the continued existence of four-year Houses and a dissenter from their report, called the council's action of last Wednesday "a reasonable thing to do."
"I'm just glad to see things over with," Gomes said, adding, "I approve wholeheartedly."
Jewett spoke on what he called the necessity of a unified freshman year--the need to keep all freshmen together in the Yard.
"There are other arguments, but on balance, it's the most practicable approach available to us at this point in time," Jewett said yesterday.
The final decision now rests with Dean Rosovsky, who must bring the council's decision up for discussion at the next meeting of the full Faculty. "They discussed it three or four times, and I'm glad they came to a decision," Rosovsky said yesterday.
But Rosovsky, who is thought to favor the plan, refused to say any more, evading the question that comes next--will he approve the controversial proposal?
"I'd rather not say," Rosovsky said