It was unclear yesterday which other House will not be participating in the survey.

But other House masters said they would participate in the online evaluation, saying it would provide a valuable means of feedback.

“I see it an analogous to course evaluations,” said Cabot House Master James H. Ware. “It raises people’s investments if they know there’s going to be an evaluation.”

The one drawback would be if students were to criticize tutors who intervened in “a valuable way,” though that same concern could also be an issue with course evaluations, he said.

How valuable the information is that the surveys find, though, is unclear. Pforzheimer’s survey last spring found no surprising information, according to Master James J. McCarthy. In addition, its timing last year was ineffectual.

“In order to be useful, we needed to know that information before decisions of the continuation of certain tutors were made,” he said, “but it’s important to note that it’s not the only piece of information.”

The Lowell survey was filled with qualitative questions about everything from what activities students attended to what they thought of their masters.

For the most part, there was little complaining in Lowell, with 90 percent of the respondents indicating they thought highly of their entryway tutor.

Undergraduate Council Representative Rohit Chopra ’04 said he believes it is important that students have an opportunity to assess their House tutors.

“Students should be able to communicate with their masters [about the tutors] or else the tutors are just getting free room and board,” Chopra said.

The committee also agreed to formalize changes instituted last year on a trial basis to allow House-sponsored parties to go until 2 a.m. instead of 1 a.m. and for universal keycard access to be extended permanently in the Houses until 2:30 a.m.

The party hours extension does not apply to parties thrown in individual student’s rooms.

Both issues had been hotly debated in previous years, but after semester-long trial periods passed without incident, the measures were approved yesterday with little note.

“It is a law in Cambridge that parties end by 1 a.m., but the Cambridge Licensing Commission has given Harvard a special exemption,” Chopra said. “[The extension] actually makes the city happy because now there are more non-bar options.”

Since the spring trial period of the 2:30 a.m. keycard extension brought none of the problems that some masters had originally predicted would occur, Chopra said he hoped the committee would eventually implement full keycard access around the clock—a longtime goal of the Undergraduate Council.