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...first time in 30 years, the college basketball champion is a resident of the East, and a private school at that, Georgetown University of Washington, D.C. Whether the emphasis is on private, school or basketball, nobody does it better than Georgetown, where students cheer in Greek and Latin (Hoya saxa! What rocks!) under the banner HOYA PARANOIA...
...What Rocks!" the Hoya fans shriek, "What Rocks!" This is the literal translation of the school's motto, "Hoya Saxa." The people in Henle 20 with the Harvard student didn't shriek that, or much of anything, until the second half of Saturday's game. What did it was an inbound pass by Gene Smith, accompanied by a grim and an unmistaka- ble nationally televised wink right into the cumeras...
...hysteria continued for the better part of the next five hours, with groups of drunken people screaming. "Hoya!" and "Sazal" at one another, across rooms, across streets, across the whole campus...
...Hoya Saxa! See you at Briggs
Hunter G. Hannum, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Emanuel S. Hellman, Applied Science; John T. Hexner, Economics; Hugh F. Houston, Jr., English; Thomas W. Hoya, Government; William H. Jacobsen, Jr., Linguistics and Romance Languages; Samuel E. Karff, Social Relations; Hugh P. Kelly, Physics; Masaaki Kubo, Classics and Sanskrit; Stephen Kurzman, Philosophy; Henry J. Landau, Mathematics; Robert B. Layzer, History and Literature; Robert G. Livingston, History...