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Crying "autonomy" like big businessmen fearful of government regulation, the House Masters last week tabled the proposed Inter-House Dance Committee. Several of the House committees agree, although the dance deficit of all the Houses last year totalled $1000. These opponents of the Student Council's plan fear dictatorship because of the committee's control of date assignments and its countersignature of contracts. While they desire a clearing house's advice on slippery band agents, these individualists demand the right to do as they please about accepting it. Their arguments sound like the staunch states' rights stand of the Republicans...
...vital factor in holding a successful dance and to deny a central committee power here as the individuals propose, is to nullify all its other good offices. Last spring's jumbled, conflicting dance schedule is a good example of what happens under "autonomy." By eliminating competition for dances, the inter House Dance Committee will gain tremendous bargaining power with the band bookies, who formerly played one House against the other. The committee's signature on contracts, moreover, is not dictatorship, but rather gives the necessary weight to its decisions...
...proposed plan would destroy a system of wasteful competition. It would destroy the worst feature of inter-House relations. If by eliminating a wild scramble for bands the Inter House Dance Committee is destroying "autonomy," that kind of autonomy should be destroyed...
Admitting that advice on bands and agents, and more inter-House cooperation would be helpful, the Dunster chairman held that selection of a date should be the prerogative of the House Committee, and also took issue with the requirement of the central organization's signature on contracts...
Many contests this week were cancelled because of rain, but director of House sports Adolph Samborski '26 says they will be played off in the first week of the second semester. The inter-House athletic program, as well as all the other athletic activities of the College, will come to a halt next week as the whole school digs in for exams...