The evening is planned to begin with a reception for faculty, staff and students followed by the ball in Harvard Yard.

During the ball, the Yard will be lit by lanterns and closed off to everyone except first-years and those with ball tickets. The dance will be held under tents in front of the Science Center.

Tickets will cost $20 for students and be free to faculty and staff. A swing band and a DJ will be hired to play.

Co-sponsor Philip R. Kaufman '98 said he was confident that the event will be a success.

"This will betheHarvard event," Kaufman said. "There will be no bigger event at Harvard next year."

Also on the docket was a constitutional change proposed by Jason E. Schmitt '98 and Bradford E. Miller '97, which would establish a judicial oversight committee to investigate wrongdoing by council members.

The committee would consist of seven members voted on by the council as a whole, none of whom could sit on the executive board.

The committee would then meet regularly like the other standing committees and as often as necessary in emergencies.

Miller said that such a committee would not take members away from working on other committees.

"The members of the committee will sit on other committees as they do now and would only convene frequently when necessary," Miller said.

Miller said that he hoped that this committee would stop scandals before they happened and better define the process of censuring members.

Council vice-president Justin C. Label '97 said that the committee would not necessarily have facilitated the censure proceedings against Liston earlier this semester.

"This committee doesn't seem terribly necessary," Label said. "Perhaps it would have been useful in the censure thing, but the main problem was that nobody knew the rules. The [proposed committee] wouldn't know them any better. Their decision would be just as arbitrary as mine."

Rudd W. Coffey '97 disagreed, arguing that having a committee of seven people making an arbitrary decision would be better than one.

"We need the damage control," Coffey said. "Everybody is riding their high horse and nobody is making sure the cows don't leave the ranch."

The bill requires the approval of three fourths of the entire council to be implemented, and the current vote stands at 12 in favor and 17 against with four abstentions.

The council also approved a comedy concert for next fall and agreed to sponsor a conference of Ivy League student governments next semester.

The council began voting on constitutional reforms that would create an executive board position for a press secretary for the council and make adhoc committees easier to form, but due to the poor attendance, the votes are not yet final.