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...cheerleaders. Even though the athletic department will only pay for one away game jaunt, they did find the funds to costume the squad in "Harvard major letter sweaters" (black sweaters with crimson and white official H's) and white skirts and crimson pleats. "It's a real traditional outfit," Coutu says enthusiastically, although she regrets that the athletic department could not find money to provide the squad with two outfits: one cool, one "wintry...
...sweaters were really hot the first two games," she laments. "Almost unbearabble." But the athletic department came through where it counted: the pom-poms are waterproof. "I was really impressed," Coutu says. "They bought the best kind, with plastic shakes. They don't wilt in the rain...
...male cheerleaders don't get to dance. While the "girls" do the dance routines, the "men stand behind the girls and scream the cheers" through megaphones, Coutu says. At the end of a routine, the men get down on all fours to form the bottom of "the mount...
...harassed the men for cheering. "The guys aren't given a hard time," Coutu says, adding, "Besides, they are very male-looking males." They agreed the men should not participate in the routine because "the arm movements look too feminine," Hoover thinks. But she promises more action for the men in the games ahead when the squad plans to have the men "picking us up and throwing us around." Hoover adds, "It will be more exciting for them...
...alumni find rooting so reprehensible. Some of the middle-aged graduates always greet Coutu after a game with a pat on the back. "They tell us how sweet we look," she says. She expects once they accept the cheerleaders' presence, the spectators will start cheering with them. Football player Pendergast hopes so too, for the cheerleaders sake. Right now, "the people in the stands do more laughing at them than cheering. Or at least that's what I hear on the bench." Pendergast believes the crowd's attitude bodes ill for the squad's future. "If they...