Chopra said he hopes to host the event early in the term, when the weather will be better.

The council also allocated $10,000 toward a band at the coming Fallfest, which will take a different shape next semester.

“We’re moving away from student groups toward a more concert scene,” Blickstead said.

He said the band should be “a smaller headliner, someone students can have fun listening to.”

Not all council members were happy with the proposed changes for Fallfest.

“The UC is becoming the throw-money-down-manholes club,” said council member Jason L. Lurie ’05, who decried the allocation of $10,000 “for a band nobody is ever going to know.”

The council also passed a resolution advocating a change in the time student posters are taken down—from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Council Student Affairs Committee (SAC) Vice Chair Sheila R. Adams ’05 said an e-mail poll revealed that 78 percent of students favored a change in the poster take-down time.

She said the change in time should take effect in November on a trial basis.

Adams said some students voiced concerns that a later poster-removal time would mean that more people would be competing for limited space on campus bulletin boards and kiosks.

But Adams argued that students would ultimately benefit from a later postering time.

“I think the inconvenience of having to wake up early outweighs the inconvenience of extra competition,” she said.

Adams added that more sandwich boards might temporarily alleviate the possible crunch for space.

Later, council members proposed creating a common grant application for student groups seeking funding.

The application could be used to apply for council grants as well as other funding organizations such as the Ann Radcliffe Trust and the Office for the Arts.

Council Finance Committee Chair Joshua A. Barro ’05, who co-sponsored the bill with council member Mary Ellen R. Player ’04, said the common application will mean less work for student groups seeking funding.

In other business, the council resolved to upgrade the software for its online UC Marketplace and approved a resolution to encourage Faculty members to put sourcebook content on the library system’s e-reserve system, which is free to students.

After completing its scheduled business, council executives made some year-end remarks and the council said goodbye to its senior members.