Hoping to go for the block and join the "winner's circle?"

Harvard students who aspire to appear in the second annual Hollywood Squares college tournament won't get the chance this year.

The game show asked permission to recruit Harvard students on campus this semester, but were denied access to campus facilities by College officials.

Darren C. Morgan, the show's director of affiliate relations spoke to Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 in an attempt to arrange an audition in one of the rooms on campus. The University was unable to provide the show with a room because of University restrictions.

"Rooms on campus...are reserved for Harvard student groups," Illingworth said. He explained that campus policy prohibits commercial enterprises from using campus rooms as well as the kiosks Hollywood Squares had wanted to use to advertise the upcoming tournament.

Illingworth suggested that Morgan hold the tryouts at a hotel in Cambridge instead.

Morgan called the Inn at Harvard and the Charles Hotel to look into the possibility of holding tryouts in one of those locations. But the hotels were late in returning his calls and this option fell through as well--thwarting the show's plans to hold tryouts in Cambridge altogether.

"It came down to timing," Morgan said. The show's organizers were already behind in setting up locations and could not spend the extra time reorganizing a potential Harvard tryout, he said.