Word: uac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty Committee on Athletics held a banquet with the UAC last night, but Noble said no formal action was taken on the matter. However, he added that the Faculty Committee is "pretty definitely in favor" of the UAC's action...
...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...
...outrage at the UAC's "dictatorial methods," they rejected the proposal that four of them stay on (and these four could be alternated from game to game). If any of them were to be forced out of their jobs, the whole squad would quit in a body. The Council promptly lined up four more athlete cheerleaders to take part in the Princeton game, and the disgruntled incumbents' show at the Penn game was their last...
However suddenly the word of dismissal came, this was a topic that has been brewing in the UAC for several years. The Council, which has direct control over all cheerleading affairs, has repeatedly complained that the cheerleading system is poorly organized; that there is no apparatus for carrying the squad over from year to year by drumming up interest in cheerleading; that the men who are enlisted are not always particularly interested or spirited; and there therefore their performance on the gridiron is often lackadaisical...
...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...