Campus Council discussed a proposed bundle of cable television and telephone services and an increase in the number of signs on West Campus in its first general body meeting Thursday night.

President Ryan Todd, a senior, said the council has been in discussion with the Office of Information Technology about introducing the cable-and-services bundle into the student housing fees.

At present, students who choose to have cable in their rooms must pay $32 per month for the standard 70-channel service. By spreading the cost of cable over a greater number of people, the bundle would make cable less expensive for each individual student, Todd said.

The proposed package would provide for cable television and local and long-distance landline phone services in all student residential rooms.

Todd said the new bundle would cost students between $100 and $120 per semester in addition to previous fees. He added that landline phone fees might be removed from the package to reduce its cost.

The mandatory fee for the bundle would also cover the cost of wire and wireless internet access, which students already pay approximately $10 a semester.

Quadrangle representatives said 70 percent of students currently choose not to pay for the service.

"We are going to have to make sure that this is something people actually want," Communications Coordinator Hope Lu, a junior, said.

Representatives also voiced their concern that having cable in every room would detract from the community building that occurs as students come together in common rooms to watch basketball games and popular shows.

Introducing the mandatory cable fee could allow OIT, which is currently losing money, to make a revenue and explore future developments including wireless internet access for all residential rooms, Todd said.

OIT could also use the extra money to improve cell phone service on campus, Treasurer Molly Bierman, a junior, said.

Campus-wide cable service would provide another way for the University to contact the student body in the event of a crisis like the Virginia Tech massacre, Todd said.

At the meeting, members also debated installing more signs on campus, particularly in residential areas where names of buildings are often simply scrawled on doorways.

"We're all in agreement that anything is better than the status quo-Sharpie," Bierman said.

Quad representatives suggested adding additional antique-looking plaques or blue-and-white signs, similar to those marking buildings on Science Drive.

The difficult part of the project will be finding a medium between signs that blend in with the architecture and signs that are visible enough to serve its purpose, Todd said.