Students Organize Booster Club

During last season's final push for the Ivy League hockey title, senior Scott McCabe and sophomore Liz Gill saw an unusual display from the Harvard fans. The crowds cheered, sang, threw chickens and generally exhibited organized enthusiasm seldom seen in recent memory.

Another Run

Unfazed by a low turnout at last night's first meeting, varsity football player McCabe and Gill, a cheerleader, are proceeding with plans for the inaugural year of the Crimson Club, a booster organization. "The school spirit's there," Gill says, "we just think it has to be harnessed."

McCabe adds that plans for the club's main fall activity, a bonfire near the athletic fields the night before the Yale game, are "tentative but looking good." Though the club has few activities planned for its first year. "We hope to do a few things really well," he adds.

Happy Harvardians

The organizers hope for support from sports alumni as well as students, who they feel are enthusiastic about sports but not well-organized. Though all those attending the meeting were members or managers of teanis, McCabe and Gill hope to make the appeal of all sports clear to all students.

Citing the poorly publicized successes of the Eastern-champion women's soccer team and the men's rugby squad, which two years ago was second in the country, McCabe says he would like to inspire non-athletes "to come down and see what it's all about."

Although the club is just emerging from its formative stages, McCabe and Gill have met with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who supports the project. Director of Athletics John P. Reardon Jr. is "very much supporting" the project, they add. Epps has encouraged them to request funding from the Undergraduate Council.

The audience at the meeting was enthusiastic about the project, despite the smallturnout, which Gill and McCabe attributed to poor advance notice. They plan an extensive media campaign in the weeks between now and Yale weekend, including radio announcements and flyer distribution.

Gill says she's "very optimistic" and thinks that the spirit of the club will catch on once students are made aware of its existence. Those who are already aware seem to be excited about the club. Says senior Chris Sciabelli, "I think it's a great idea."