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CALLING A MEETING which accomplished nothing a success sounds strange. But that is precisely the nature of the meeting the new Undergraduate Council held last Sunday. Following two marathon sessions spent electing officers, the council slogged through considerable procedural business, astutely discussed the volatile issue of sexual harassment, and adjourned at the emminently civilized time of 10 p.m. It was an impressive set of modest achievements for a group which must strive to distance itself from the dismal and defunct Student Assembly...
Pearson, although skeptical about one proposal to get Bill Rodgers--a marathoner of some note--to come speak at Harvard because of his astronomical fees, nevertheless joked. "I did give him a glass of water before the Boston Marathon so he owes me something...
Rodney Pearson, a Winthrop House economics tutor and marathoner of local notoriety, is the club's faculty sponsor. He feels that, as with the 100-member Harvard Business School Running Club, one of the organization's best services will be helping Harvard runners prepare for the Boston marathon, and to supply them with the necessary enthusiasm for long, cold training runs...
...March Chinese gymnasts accepted an invitation to compete in Moscow for the first time in 16 years. In September two Soviet track stars ran in Peking's annual international marathon. For the Chinese, sport can be politics conducted by other means, as the U.S. discovered in 1971 when an American table tennis team instituted Ping Pong diplomacy by leading the way for Nixon's visit to Peking...
...Schlesinger may only have run in two marathons before entering the New York City Marathon last weekend, but that didn't keep the first-year Law School student from finishing third, only two minutes and 26 seconds behind winner Alberto Salazar...