But council members expressed frustration that they had not been consulted in the October decision.

"I feel really bad," Garza told the council. "We should have known where the $3,000 went."

"I think this is an elitist institution," Garza said. "We're back to [the fact that] Mike [Beys] and Malcolm [Heinicke] knew. I feel there's an old boy's network."

She said that "Not all checks are $3,000...we are debating why this money was dispensed with the knowledge of three council members and not the full knowledge of the council."

Duncan asked, "Why wasn't this discussed?" He added that the timing of the decision "was right before the [council's October] election" in which beys lost the race for vice chair.

Beys responded that allotting the funds "was my job. It was an appropriation."

And when Duncan asked Beys why he "couldn't have waited a week," the chair said. "Yes I could have taken [the check] to the executive board. But we don't take every check to the executive board," Beys said.

Beys produced the minutes of the October 18, 1992 council meeting, which stated that "Beys announced...$3,500 went to the homeless shelters through corporate sponsorships."

The minutes were dated the same day as the council's October election, indicating that the check had been written before Beys presented himself for election.

Beys said in response to Duncan's question about when he had signed the check that he had done so "three or four days" before the council's October election.

Stokes: Allotment 'Not Unethical'

Rock for Shelter co-chair Tracy H. Stokes '95, who last week was one of the first to express anger over the allotment to PBH, said she thought that the council's allotment was "not unethical.