Word: uac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the squad oppose in principle the UAC plan which restricts cheering to varsity letter winners; however, although six of the nine members of the squad will automatically be excuded from cheering next year because of this plan, the cheerleaders, to a man, will do their best to help the UAC achieve what it believes to be a better system...
...cheerleaders recognize that they are under the aegis of the Undergraduate Athletic Council. However... they nonetheless feel that the UAC has unmistakeable moral obligation to allow the present members to complete their season of cheering...
Listing charges against the present cheerleaders, the UAC referred to "complaints from students and alumni." But the claims involved are not so heinous that disciplinary actions or warnings could not have solved the problem...
...present squad, which has led cheers for five games this fall, should be allowed to finish the season. The UAC should hold its changes until next year...
...UAC is also resting its case on the improvements which the new team will usher in as well as on the complaints against the old. Varsity letter-men are to compose the new cheerleading squad, a procedure which was used before the war. Reinstating the old system at this time, however, makes it appear that the UAC wants to improve the cheerleaders only because the football team has shown new promise. With the new success of the team, the cheerleaders have become the poor relatives who show up at embarrassing times...