Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There aren't any fours available at Weld." Crane added. "We have to send girls home if we can't fill two eights...
Until now the Radcliffe team has had to make do with the old, heavy shells and oars in Weld Boat House where intramural House crews practice. "Women ought to row lighter prep-school shells with shorter, narrower oars," said co-captain Charlotte Crane '72. "The Weld boats not only carry too much wood for us, but some are so old they've been fiberglassed over once or twice as well...
...Crane and the Olmsteds want Radcliffe crew classified as an intercollegiate sport so that they can move out of House facilities into Newell and share lightweight equipment there with the Harvard freshmen rowers. The Harvard Athletic Department has argued that on a tight budget there simply is not enough equipment to go around--and the men must come first...
...present administration of City Manager John Corcoran, backed by city councillors Thomas Coates, Daniel Clinton, Edward Crane '35, Walter Sullivan, Thomas Danehy and Mayor Alfred Velluci, has proven its inability to effect change. A rent control ordinance was enacted but not administered for six months and then only in watered down fashion, and cases of police brutality were discussed but not investigated. Political favors are available for real estate interests, friends of pols, and the universities, but the average citizen still has a hard time getting his driveway permit...
With two councillors--Crane and Thomas H.D. Mahoney--retiring, there is a reasonable chance that newer, more progressive leadership can find its way into the Cambridge City Council. All concerned citizens should weigh the issues and be sure to vote...