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...contest, sponsored by the CRIMSON as a solution to the controversy between the Undergraduate Athletic Council and the ousted cheerleading squad, elicited wide-spread enthusiasm yesterday from team-boosters across the nation...
Nevertheless, the principal is probably correct when he says that "Horace Mann at least ranks above the typical mid-western high school." It is one of the two best high schools in Gary, and above average for Indiana. But this merely indicates that inadequacy is wide-spread. It does not prove that the school provides an academic experience comparable to the country's top private or public high schools. Nor does it even prove that Gary does the most it can with the resources available to a medium-sized industrial city...
...unions themselves. In more clement times, the two unions have had to depend on each other; the AFL-CIO on the Teamsters for transportation, and the Teamsters on the AFL-CIO for contracts. If the two groups split, the result would be chaotic with labor raids and wide-spread strikes. The real victim would then be the national economy. Meany and the leaders of the AFL must decide then, either to take these risks and expel the Teamsters or play a waiting game and let Hoffa cut his own throat...
Besides a staggeringly large amount of drinking, there were also many cases of men sleeping with their dates in various corners of fraternity house rooms and other convenient spots. Destruction of property was fairly wide-spread, and nearly $5,000 worth of goods were stolen from the campus houses during the weekend...
Both Deans Watson and Leighton yesterday denied rumors that outside pressure had been brought to bear on them not to take any formal action against the HYRC. Wide-spread rumors are circulating throughout the University to the effect that undergraduates interested in the outcome of the HYRC elections have sent letters to wealthy Republicans asking that they exert economic pressure in the University's current fund drive...