After Summers’ visit, the council heard from students who attended the Ivy Council conference two weekends ago. All four of the students who attended recommended that the council rejoin the organization. The Ivy Council is composed of student representatives from all of the Ivy League schools except Harvard. It is meant to be a forum for student governments to pool ideas on solving problems at their institutions.

Harvard first left the Ivy Council in 2001, citing the Ivy Council’s fiscal and organizational mismanagement. Harvard’s council will vote next week on whether to rejoin, after the issue is discussed in the council’s Student Affairs Committee.

Council members also voted 30-8, with one abstention, to accept Harvard Student Agencies’ (HSA) bid to be the council’s “official ring vendor,” and to sponsor the council’s movie nights next year. Council Vice President Michael R. Blickstead ’05, who led the ring negotiations, said that HSA’s bid—$6,500, with an additional $15 for each ring after the first 300—will likely be more lucrative for the council than The Coop’s bid of $6,800.

In other business, the council approved its final grants package of the year, which included over $4,900 in funding.

The Constitutional Revision Committee also presented proposals for amendments to the council’s constitution. The proposed changes will be debated and voted on at next week’s meeting.

—Staff writer Jeffrey C. Aguero can be reached at aguero@fas.harvard.edu.