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...allegations of football managers scalping tickets and administrators giving preference to final club members created a stir around campus that year. Due to the frustrations created by the complicated and, at times, unfair ticketing procedures, investigations were launched into the matter and the Faculty Committee on Athletics worked to correct three main problems...
...third problem confronting the distribution of football tickets during the 1953 season seems to have affected the largest number of undergraduates, and prompted many to propose various plans to correct the situation during the middle of the season. The inefficient system used during the 1953 season required students to sometimes wait in lines for hours in order to obtain tickets, a problem which the 1954 resolution remedied—several letters to The Crimson in the fall of 1954 commented on the ease of purchasing tickets...
...days, a trim, fit, politically correct fellow named Morgan Spurlock took all his meals--breakfast, lunch and dinner, no exceptions, no excuses, no midnight raids on the fridge for a side salad--at McDonald's while directing the film crews recording his horror story...
...Tarantino Jury did give a prize to a politically correct road movie, but not this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...
...British scientist named Francis Galton became interested in a weight-judging competition: 800 fairgoers (a diverse group that included butchers, farmers, clerks, housewives, townspeople, smart people, dumb people, average people) tried to guess what a particular ox would weigh after having been slaughtered and dressed. The correct answer was exactly 1,198 lbs. After the judges awarded their prize, Galton borrowed all the entry tickets, did some arithmetic to get the mean of the fairgoers' guesses and found that their collective estimate...