He mentioned more frequent campus-wide Springfest-type activities at the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College as reasons students at those schools are more community-minded.

Baror said he thinks Yale's policy of assigning students to residential colleges at the beginning of their first year helps build cohesion within those colleges.

"They get into [the Colleges] at the beginning, instead of after they've already established their ties," Baror said.

Ebbel said he feels Harvard's system of assigning students to upperclass Houses is a source of student dissatisfaction.

"Look at the number of sophomores who tried to transfer this year," he said.

Ebbel also suggested a way to make use of the resources available in Harvard's current system: extending the hours of Loker Commons.

"If, after the library close, there's still food and there's still study space,...people might use it," he said.

Ebbel said a similar measure met with success at Dartmouth.

Another conference accomplishment was the planning of the Ivy Leaders Summit, an Ivy Council-sponsored leadership conference to be held next year for student leaders from each of the Ivy League schools.

The Harvard delegates to the summit must submit an application to attend the event.

Driskell said the council would attempt to bring in both high-profile and behind the-scenes leaders from their campuses.

The summit, she said, would focus on qualities such as integrity and responsibility, but also on specific professions such as medicine, law, politics, journalism, entrepreneurship and even professional sports.

And Ebbel said he hopes to introduce one more innovation: a book portraying and evaluating life at the Ivy League schools, written by students of those schools, marketed to the general American public.