"We have a lot of other great things plannedlike Springfest, shuttle buses into Boston andcomedy concerts," Feeney said. "If we pass thisbill, we won't be able to allocate any money forthem until we find out how the concert does."

Council Parliamentarian Jason E. Schmitt '98said that the bill was in violation of thecouncil's bylaws and could violate itsconstitution.

"The campus life committee has a maximum of$23,000 to spend, so in order to cover the cost ofthe concert until revenues come in, we would haveto violate the bylaws by spending grants money,"Schmitt said. "And if we didn't ever make enoughrevenue, we'd have serious constitutionalproblems."

The bill's supporters argued that the councilshould still take the risk in order to set aprecedent for future concerts.

"We're working on a concert tradition here,"said Spyros H. Poulios '96. "We've not taken verygood steps in the past on this. We shouldn't worryso much about the details."

The bill was defeated, 20 to 30, with oneabstention, though Mather House's delegationbanded together to unanimously support it.

The resolution would have been the largestallocation by the council in memory, said councilPresident Joshua D. Liston '95