Word: wisconsin
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Sure, there was the IRA regatta in Syracuse, which called itself a national championship. But many of the heavier heavies--Harvard included--were consistent no-shows, suffering under the burden of final exams and leaving the laurels to such lesser powers as Wisconsin, who took the crown this spring...
...Crimson first showed how useless the IRA title was by stopping in Wisconsin to wipe out the Badgers twice--first on a shortened 1500-meter course, and the next day on a 2000-meter Lake Mendota...
When Paul Soglin, then only 27, upset a conservative Republican to become mayor of Madison, Wis., a year ago last April, the students who supported him hailed his victory as a sign that their day had finally come. But the erstwhile University of Wisconsin radical lost little time in setting his supporters straight. Climbing onto a stage during a ball celebrating his inaugural, the long-haired, mustachioed Soglin stripped off his dress shirt to reveal a T shirt bearing the legend MELLOW MAN. Said Soglin: "It's going to take those mellow men and mellow women to put this...
...that many of Soglin's committee appointees lack the expertise needed to deal with municipal problems. "These are a lot of people who have been in the stands watching but who haven't had a chance to play the game," says Robert Brennan, a former University of Wisconsin track coach and head of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, who has been working to bridge the gap between Soglin and the businessmen...
...salary, suspect that he has gone bourgeois. Others feel that he has at least retreated from the radicalism of his student days. "There are council members who are submitting much more progressive legislation than Paul is," says Alderman Susan Kay Phillips, 29, a member of the radical Wisconsin Alliance. Even the university's Daily Cardinal, which endorsed his mayoral bid, has become critical. Soglin, it charged, has provided "mere efficiency, not change...