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...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...
...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...
Council members admit that their decision is hard on the cheerleaders, but they clearly didn't make it with punishment or hard feelings in mind. They simply believe that a corps of athletes for next year's cheerleading could never be recruited and organized unless this year's UAC gets some experience at the job and goes through the possible embarrassment of breaking the ice on a new system...