In other business, the council passed a $350 grant to the Prefect Program for a first-year movie night. The consideration of the grant had been postponed from last week because it was unclear whether the Prefect Program is funded by the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO).
This week, the council’s Finance Committee found that the FDO did not fund the Prefect Program for all of the events it plans.
Some council members argued that the council should not grant funding to the program in order to force the FDO to fund it.
But the council ultimately approved the funding by a wide margin.
“We should appear as the heroes of the freshman and save the program,” said council member Zachary L. Bercu ’03.
—Staff writer Claire A. Pasternack can be reached at cpastern@fas.harvard.edu.