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...oarsman put it, in a scene right out of the Wizard of Oz, the oarsmen began gathering around the Wicked Witch of Newell celebrating the victory of the dazed yardling rower. "We won! The Erg is dead...
...freshman oarsman lay sprawled on the Newell boathouse floor. The ergometer (rowing machine) he had challenged to a five-minute bout had gallantly thrown him to the floor before relinquishing its dying gasp. Its life line, in the form of a broken cable, had been severed. The Erg was dead...
...rowing world's answer to running in place. It is a machine which simulates on-the-water rowing, with two notable exceptions. First, the machine doesn't go anywhere so the rower is in a constant upstream battle to maintain his or her power throughout the "erg-piece." And the second damning quality of this mainstay-in-the-winter-wonderland-of-rowing is its ability to spit back a "strength score" into the face of the vanquished rower...
...while Robin Lothrop, a Radcliffe varsity oarswoman, points out that the erg "can only measure one's brute strength and not one's rowing ability," the waves of its psychological impact are felt throughout both Weld and Newell boathouses...
...ERG will make recommendations to the Faculty Council upon completion and assessment of the survey...