"It was presented in the context that they want to get through graduation without any problems," he said.

At the time of the graduate board's decision earlier this spring to close the club to visitors, Spee President Paul M. Goldschmid '00 said the change was necessary in the current final club environment.

"The students agreed that [no guests] would be the best idea until we come up with a new plan," Goldschmid said.

The Spee graduate board's move comes on the heels of the A.D. club graduate board's decision to close the club temporarily to undergraduate members last month.

At the beginning of May, A.D. alumni locked out members for a few weeks while the club underwent renovations in preparation for the building's 100th anniversary this fall.

Undergraduate members said they had not kept the club "clean" and participated in behavior that resulted in minor damage to the club building.

The closings at both the A.D. and Spee clubs accentuate the growing tensions between graduates and undergraduates in the unofficial social organizations.

Prior to the A.D. incident in May, the lastclub to close to members was the D.U. club, whichshut down in 1995 after graduates andundergraduates could not agree on guest andalcohol policies.

Regardless of the recent closings, Rev. Searssaid he does not see the practice as a trend, butrather a means to a "managerial objective."

The shift from simply closing to guests to nowtemporarily shutting doors to members is a productof the undergraduates' general disrespect for theclub buildings, according to Rev. Sears.

With the guests out of the clubs, at least intheory, the damage should have stopped. But Rev.Sears said many clubs still have the sameproblems--even without visitors.

"By practice of elimination, they scrutinizedtheir own actions more closely," Rev. Sears said."[The undergraduates' attitude] is somethingpeople should have gotten out of their system inmiddle school but didn't."

Rev. Sears said the ICC plans to meet thissummer to devise solutions to the recent problemsother than "just closing things.