Chair David A. Aronberg '93 initiated thereallocation and, after the meeting, denounced aCrimson article which he said inaccuratelyclaimed he had promised to dip into the budgetsurplus this year to fun student organization.

Aronberg denied ever having made such acampaign promise, but says the council will spendthe rolled over funds, in order to reverse whathe called a tendency on the part of past councilsto "hoard the surplus."

Despite running a substantial surplus, Aronbergsaid past councils met only 30 percent of grantdemands. The additional funding had been rolledover from previous council budgets, $2000 of whichwas carried over from emergency funds.

Aronberg said he decided to spend the budget surplus this semester to make good on his pledge to increase services to students and to shed the council's "parsimonious" reputation.

"I thought it was fair, now that the council isin the black, to make sure the other studentsorganizations are in the black as well," he said.

In another matter, the council's date rapesubcommittee will hold an open forum Wednesday at7:30 p.m. in the basement of Canaday B. Thesubcommittee and students attending will discuss anumber of contentious issues in the recentproposal by the Date Rape Task Force