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Fearful of high costs, fraud and duplication of services, most Cambridge voters interviewed yesterday said they would oppose national health insurance on next month's city referendum...
...they do it? Tricia G. Butler '80 does it because "it's one good way of keeping my shape." Toni M. Hoover '81 says she "always wanted to in high school" but couldn't because she marched in the band. Coutu says she's been doing it for "years and years," but thought "it might be even better here, since, you know, this is Harvard." Besides, she throws in, "you travel...
...races." The squad now has a few white and Asian-American members, but most are black. Cheerleader Ellen D. Powell '82, says the original basketball cheerleading squad was all black. The squad did mostly "stomp cheers," which involved more clapping, dancing and singing, and Powell says most predominantly white high schools--like the one she went to--do "precision cheers," requiring stricter arm movements and less dancing. Powell "found it hard" to adjust to the stomp brand of cheerleading; others could not adjust at all and dropped out after a few weeks. "The white girls could not get into doing...
Some Harvard students, band members in particular, have asked Powell if she feels "high-schoolish." Powell vigorously defends the squad against charges of immaturity: "Look at all the other big-name colleges. They all have cheerleaders." Similarly, they scoff at accusations that they are perpetuating the sexist stereotype of a submissive, giggly teenager. Butler insists cheerleading is a sport, like football. "We aren't just jumping up and down; your feet have to be pointing exactly one way, your hands have to be in a special position." If it looks childishly simple, Butler says, that is just "part...
...close your eyes at the Dartmouth game this weekend, listen for the cheers, and you'll swear you're back at good ol' Central High, U.S.A. Now, if only the band would march in straight lines...