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UC Votes Money To Houses

Also on the council's agenda was a bill sponsored by Campus Life Committee Co-chair Phillip R. Kaufman '98 and Tom Cotton '99 to provide shuttle busses for students who wish to attend the Harvard-Yale football game in November.

Three buses are to leave Harvard for New Haven on the Friday before The Game, seven will make the round-trip on Saturday and three will return from New Haven on Sunday.

Tickets will cost $18 round-trip. The council anticipates around 500 students will use the buses, but the Campus Life Committee has some discretion to expand or contract the number of buses depending on demand.

The shuttle bus bill passed unanimously.

The council next passed a bill to call on college administrators to firmly commit to a policy of need-blind admissions.

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Sponsor Justin C. Label '97, former vice-president of the council, also included provisions in the bill saying that the council believes it speaks for most students in placing the maintenance of this policy among the highest priorities in the University's upcoming financial decisions.

The bill was amended by Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition [PUCC] member Garance Franke-Ruta '96 to make provisions to further promote a rally in support of maintaining federal financial aid which will take place on the Boston Common on Tuesday, October 31.

As one of the measures in the amendment, the council will mail drop flyers advertising the rally to most students on campus. The efforts to support the financial aid rally are a part of PUCC's platform of increasing the political activity of the council.

The next bill passed, also sponsored by Label, will allow student groups to use the high-volume copier located in the council's office for three cents per copy. The bill makes the council's treasurer responsible for providing access to the copier and charging the groups.

In his opening remarks before the meeting, Hyman announced the administration has granted universal card-key access to all houses and first-year dormitories between the hours of 12 and 8 p.m.

In response to this concession, Rehling sponsored a bill calling for the council to pressure administrators to implement this new access as soon as possible.

The council also changed its rules so that first-year council members will now be allowed to serve on the College's Committee on House Life

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