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...UAC Names Committee...
...meeting this fall of the Faculty group and the Undergraduate Athletic Council, the Faculty directed the UAC to organize its position in favor of the team's participation and report back the first of December...
...Thomas Rosch '61, an ex-cheerleader, yesterday called the plan, which will allow both the old and new squads to cheer as a unit at the Yale game, "a condescension, not a compromise." He continued, "if the UAC had been sincere in desiring a peaceful solution, they would have attempted some compromise for the Brown and Princeton games...
...addition, the Women's Auxiliary Cheering Squad will be valuable athletically. Why should the Buffalo team have their Bisonettes when the Crimson only has John Harvard? Even Radcliffe's detractors cannot anticipate trouble from the UAC, which dismissed the recent cheerleaders on the grounds that they were unknown and failed to stimulate the crowd...
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...