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...Harvard Ski Club is planning an excursion to Sugar brush in Vermont, and a few spots remain for students willing to pay $155 for the six-day trip, which begins Saturday. The Ski Club is also planning weekend and seven-day trips during reading period and intercession. They range in price and length from a $75 weekend trip to Loon, N.H., to a week-long trek to the snowy mountains of Aspen...
Jonathan Margolis, president of the Harvard Ski Club, said of the snow, "I despise it. It's so cold. I get windburn on my face. But once I'm out on the slopes, it's a wonderful time...
BORN. To Annemarie Moser-Proll, 29, competitive, headstrong Austrian 1980 Olympic gold medalist skier and six-time World Cup winner, regarded by many as the greatest woman downhill racer of all time, and Herbert Moser, 32, a ski-equipment salesman: their first child, a girl. Name: Marion. Weight: 6 Ib. 12 oz. Although Moser-Proll once before came out of retirement, she now claims to have quit racing permanently...
Brendan A. Maher, professor of the Psychology of Personality, waves equally enthusiastic about cross-country skiing. He and his wife learned the sport in Norway during his sabbatical. "It's testimony to my extraordinary ignorance of sking that I didn't even know there were two kinds. Now I am frightened by downhill skiing. When we were in Oslo I went up to the top of the Holmenkollen ski jump, the Olympic ski jump ther, and I could not imagine why people would launch themselves off the top of that thing voluntarily. I decided I would stick to cross-country...
...order to raise funds the club is planning a ski sale slated for later this fall, and held jointly with the ski team. Events like this will have to be the club's major source of income because it is school policy not to provide any organization with funds during its first year of existance...