The Undergraduate Council last night overwhelming approved every item on a lengthy docket, including a proposal for a Blind Melon concert.

The council sharply diverged from the division it exhibited last week when it allocated $14,150 for a Digable Planets concert to be held during reading period in January. That motion passed by a vote of 32-30, with three members abstaining.

But the Digable Planets ultimately rejected the council's bid for the concert, according to concert organizer John A. Mann '92-'94. Mann then organized another proposal, which called upon the council to allocate $16,000 for a Blind Melon concert scheduled for February 17.

That motion sped through the council, despite obstacles posed by the council's parliamentary procedure which kept the resolution from an immediate vote.

The resolution was passed by a vote of 50-1, with five members abstaining.

The turnaround in council support for a large concert resulted from the combined effects of changing the concert date from reading period to the beginning of second semester and the sense among council members that Blind Melon is a more main-stream music group which will attract a larger Harvard audience, said council President Carey W. Gabay '94.

"One of the questions I had was whether Harvard students are cool enough to go partying right before exams," Gabay said, referring to the rhetoric former council Chair Michael P. Beys '94 used to marshal support for the original concert last week.

Gabay also said that the results of the student affairs committee's recent survey swayed his decision to support such a pricey concert despite the council's De La Soul failure two years ago.

According to the student survey based on a random sampling of more than 1,600 undergraduates, 26 percent of the students who responded said that they would attend a Blind Melon concert.

"Whenever you have a quarter of Harvard agreeing on anything there's no reason not to support it," Mann said.

The council then proceeded to allocate another$10.000 to bring Saturday Night Live comedianDavid Spade to Sanders Theatre on March 24. Thecampus life committee expects to incur a $3,000loss from the Blind Melon concert and another$1,060 loss from the Spade concert, assuming thatboth events sell out.

But the committee is already $1,581 over itsbudget, said council Treasurer Rene Reyes '95.Still, financial concerns were disregarded as thecouncil continued its pattern of magnanimousgestures throughout the night.

The council added to their $26,000 eveningexpenditures a campus life committee allocation of$1,440 for shuttle buses to run form Harvard toLogan International Airport on December 21 and 22.

In other business, the council approved ameasure which would request that the facultycouncil issue teaching fellow (T.F.) evaluationforms to all academic departments. The evaluationswould reinforce mandatory T.F. training at the BokCenter for Teaching and Learning.

"The benefits of the resolution are two-fold,"Mark P. Connolly '96, motion co-sponsor said."We're offering both preventive training beforeT.F.'s start teaching and then evaluations at theend to make sure they did their jobs well."

Reyes told the council that the financecommittee is presently $2.200 over its fallbudget.