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Many alumni had hoped that hockey would emerge at Union the way lacrosse has at Johns Hopkins. Neither is a jock school. Both enjoy excellent academic reputations. Unfortunately the faculty at Union seems to perceive athletic excellence as incompatible with academic excellence. It is comforting, however, to know the college remains a paragon of academic purity to the point of rejecting men who are being accepted by the Ivies...
...other male roomies are hockey player Jacques LeChien (call him "Jock") played by Sal D'Agostino and John H. Clay (call him "JC") played by Jim Smith. We don't see Jock too much during the play, but when we do he is always doing things that good jocks are supposed to do, such as drink massive quantities of beer, "hump chicks," and sap off other people's notebooks. JC wanders around the stage perpetually stoned--his first words in the play come when he lumbers into the room for the first time and sees Stan and Jim and their...
...comes down on "Jock" for his systematic "academic rip-offs" from other students during exams, and rebuffs Stan because he never seems to get any work done, preferring to imbibe spirits, smoke, and the girl across the hall. JC--as the rich, useless preppie from St. Paul's--attracts disdain from his roommates, who see him "taken care of" by his wealthy father; Tim, on the other hand, is the prim, self-sufficient perfection of the Greek ideal, envied by Stan for his diligence and direction...
...about that year is a challenge, and Kramer, Bellow and friends confront this challenge with class and cleverness, providing the necessary comedy to keep everything in perspective. It is a very funny play, and it was a very funny year. And like Tim, Stan, Marcie, JC, Sue, Maggi and Jock, you can take some time to look in the mirror and laugh at yourself and say, "Sanity is such a burden...
...last night's hockey tilt would have been the clincher. A win last evening and Dartmouth would have pulled out of the Ivy League, expelled all of its females, and become one of those agrarian-type prep schools where an expert cowmilker is considered a jock...