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Cheerleading was reborn at Harvard two years ago. With a little help from the athletic department. 14 women and four men agreed to attempt to resurrect an art form that had died amidst the politics and protest of the late sixties...
...poster, the editorial Bowdlers at the Globe and the Los Angeles Times deemed the poster suitable for their eyes only and demurely cropped out everything just above the knee. At the Pittsburgh Press, editors actually put a pair of shorts on the leggy lady. Amidst the furor, three models who had posed for the poster went out on their limbs claiming fame. Photographer Morgan Kane ended all speculation with the announcement that the legwork was the product of Joyce Bartle, 22, a native New Yorker. "I was embarrassed that I had to prove that the legs were mine," says Bartle...
...swear to God, this is taken verbatim from the pages of GQ. There are also a bunch of improbable photos: six fashion models in khaki landing a hot air balloon amidst a herd of giraffes; six fashion models waving from on top of a jeep. Breaking down into couples, the six alternately hug, slice meat, look tough, read maps through glasses of Chablis, practice foreplay, wade in rivers, listen to New Wave on a tape recorder, and become good friends with the Masai tribesmen, who obviously know a smart buy when they see one. As the caption reads: "The magnificent...
Employees of the Harvard Cooperative Society voted in late March to deny United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) the right to represent them in contract negotiations. The vote, which ended up 273 against and 156 in favor, took place amidst charges that management's policies and actions before the election may have unfairly influenced employees. UFCW quickly filed with the NLRB, charging that Coop management intimidated workers and possibly coerced them into voting against unionization...
...amidst this congregation of students with different interests and perspectives, there were separate, and perhaps self-enclosed, worlds of their own. Rosenthal says that people who paid no particular attention would hardly know that finals clubs existed. Sirjay Sanger '56, a psychiatrist living in New York, readily admits that his overriding goal at college was to succeed in his pre-med courses and gain acceptance to a medical school. But, he describes people with entirely opposite aspirations and ideals. "It was clear to me from the first day who was going into family business, law, power, and who was going...