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...encountered cheetahs 25 years ago; they were in captivity at the Oregon wildlife park where she worked. Over the years she developed a successful cheetah breeding program. In the 1980s Marker made several trips to Namibia, where she began to use a cheetah she had raised in Oregon, named Khayam, to study the possibility of returning the cats to the wild. Although the animal hunted and killed by instinct, without the 18 to 22 months of training that a young cheetah gets from its mother, Khayam couldn't learn how to survive...
Fortunately she had a way to get their attention: by using Khayam as an ambassador. With the tame cheetah at her side, she toured the farmlands. "It was tough at first," she admits, "but the more the farmers learned about cheetahs, the more they listened." She told them that cattle are not the cheetah's favorite food; if the farmers kept antelope and other wild animals on their land, the cats would be more likely to leave the cattle alone. She gave farmers guard dogs to help keep cheetahs away...
...Khayam died in 1986, but a new cat quickly took over her role. Orphaned as a cub and raised on the farm, the cheetah goes by the name of Chewbaaka, after the furry Star Wars character. That's an appropriate moniker for Marker's sidekick, since you could easily call Marker the Han Solo of the fight to protect cheetahs...
...offer a slight correction to your admirable account of my affair with that cow (in the CRIMSON of Saturday, May 1). The consolatory verses that you quoted were of course only a remodeling of the well-known lines from Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubalyat of Omar Khayam...
...Monday evening, at 9 o'clock in the Omar Khayam room of the Hotel St. Mortiz, 50 Central Park South, New York City the Radcliffe Club of New York will hold a dance and bridge for the benefit of its Anniversary Scholarship Fund. Student tickets at $5.00 instead of the regular $7.00 per couple may be obtained. Application should be made to the Publicity Office at Radcliffe College...