Relatively little business was left outstanding when Harvard's administrative machinery ground down last spring, so College administrators will start out with a fairly clean slate this term. Among this items left open for further debate this fall, however, are increasing contact between students and Faculty and a possible reevaluation of the freshman housing lottery.

Last year, spurred on by the two-year-old Undergraduate Council, College officials discussed these matters with council members and agreed to consider them further this year. The College will take the first step toward improving student-faculty contact by distributing a survey to establish what students consider the ideal amount of contact, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III.

One proposal on this matter that will take effect immediately is a coupon system which allows students to take their professors to lunch at their House or at the Union free of charge. Coupons may be picked up in Dean Fox's office.

The first order of business for the Undergraduate Council will probably be electing new officers. Once new leadership is in place there, expect some discussion on the ever touchy issue of the housing lottery.

Open discussions on the topic sponsored by the council last spring failed to reach any consensus, but the committee on housing plans to devote more time to the issue this fall. The College is reportedly waiting for a firm proposal from the council before it takes up the issue again.

More immediately, a crop of new House masters and senior tutors will greet returning students in Dunster, Cabot, Lowell, and Mather Houses, Myra A. Mayman, director of Radcliffe's Office for the Arts, will take over for departing Cabot Master Warren E.C. Wacker and Associate Master Ann Wacker. Mayman will hold the post for a year while a search for a permanent replacement is conducted. Joining Mayman at Cabot will be incoming senior tutor Elizabeth Hart '76.

In the river Houses, Terry K. Shaller '72 and Assistant Professor of Mathematics John M. Lee will take over as senior tutors of Mather and Lowell Houses, respectively. Last spring it was announced that Professor of Anthropology Sally Falk Moore would become the new master of Dunster House.

If all goes well, students will not be greeted by construction workers and scaffolding. Officials say renovations in Dunster, Eliot and Kirkland Houses should be completed by the time students move into the dorms.