Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Weiss the committee will be consulting with a "huge group" of people from the Athletic Department--coaches captains intramural representatives--as well as athletic directors at other Ivy League and Boston-area schools, athletics booster groups, faculty, house masters, alumni groups and the Undergraduate Council, among others...
...early confidence-booster, however, didn't hold Harvard (2-2 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) above water for long. By the time Mills pumped in Harvard's second, and last, goal 35 minutes later, the Crimson crew was sinking fast...
Much of his idealistic 11-point plan is equally unrealistic. Eliminate weekday games? Split tournament TV revenue equally among all teams? Even Lehigh? Eliminate booster groups? Appoint Dan Quayle "ombudsman for college athletes...
...White Sands, N. Mex., test stand last week seemed to symbolize the fears critics have long expressed about the Strategic Defense Initiative. What fizzled was not the payload -- a satellite designed to generate Buck Rogers-style neutral-particle beams in space -- but a thoroughly conventional solid-fuel Aries booster. Coming after an aborted mission in March using a Delta launcher, the unsuccessful mission crystallized suspicion that SDI is so riddled with potential failures that it will never get off the ground...
...Mirror casts a lighter, more positive reflection. Booster journalism promotes progressive activities. It includes poetry and several pages of basketball, handball and softball scores. Consumer stories criticize new prison regulations, meat fraud in the cafeteria, movies on the closed-circuit | channel and such outside issues as exploitation of lab animals and the Federal Government's handling of the AIDS crisis...