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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimous vote the Student Council passed two motions, both supporting the retention of present members of the cheerleading squad. The second motion included a proposal that a number of UAC representatives equal to the number of present cheerleaders be combined into one squad for the rest of the season...
...present cheerleaders, who naturally looked forward to the Princeton and Yale games as the high points of their season, cried "foul" in violent indignation. After all, they said, they had put a good deal of practice and travelling time into the job. Now they were being fired without any previous warning, just before the two most important games of the year...
...three years, UAC requests that the cheerleaders shake up their sytem and organize better have produced no results satisfying to the Council. This fall, apparently, the UAC decided that adjustments within the present system are impossible and thus prescribed the present change...
...most controversial aspect of the UAC's action, however, is its timing. Instead of waiting for the 1959 season to introduce its athlete-cheerleaders, the Council chose to plump them right into the middle of this fall's schedule. This is somewhat unfair to the present cheerleaders, who went out for the job with at least a tacit understanding that they would finish the season and had no forewarning of their sudden demise...
This dramatic mid-season shift, and the bitterness it has caused, may, however, have increased the troubles for the new system rather than eased them. In view of the unfairness to the present cheerleaders, and in view of the very tentative advantages of the UAC scheme itself, the Council might well have done better to wait half a year. And its new cheerleaders may agree when, with one week's practice, they man the megaphones for the first time in Palmer Stadium...