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DWINDLING SPIRIT-The orderly, quiet generation at the University today seldom goes out of its
way to show school spirit. When it does, rocking of automobiles and panty raids are its most fre-
quently used means of expression. Even then, the writer claims, the enthusiasm is short-lived
Raids, Rivalries and Riots
School Spirit Is Sadly Lacking at the University
For Reasons of Size and Nearness to Other Colleges
By JOHN WEICHER even get close. The raid was a above the ruck of ordinary coL- to New Haven or Princeton for a Not to be outdone, other schools
1WO YEARS AGO on the eve of fiasco. Last fall, nobody even tried, leges. 2 p.m. game, just on the spur of develop rivalries even when no-
the Michigan State football The importance of that raid lies This lack of spirit manages to the moment. body else is in the neighborhood,
game, this campus was the scene in its value as the last genuine pass unnoticed, however, because The Colgate team generally has as Dartmouth has done with
outburst of real "school spirit" on the Big Ten generally does not go only two home games a year which Brown and Columbia.
of ar panty raid.t Ittostories quite a this campus. In the two and one- in for school spirit to any extent is the primary reason for such an
by participants. Men rewrote thea- half years since then, only last excepting Northwestern and Wis- avid following, but it also results THESE RIVALRIES provide fo-
tre marquees and scaled Stock- year's Michigan State basketball consin. On campuses in other from genuine spirit. At most East- cal points fcr school spirit. The
well's walls. Further, it caught the game, when the Spartans had won parts of the country school spirit ern football games, the stands are Harvard-Yale game never provides
Administration flatfooted. Nobody ten straight and Michigan had is definitely the order of the day, quite literally split into "Home" as much copy for newspapers as
expected it. Just beaten Illinois and Indiana, so much so that administrations and "Visitors"-the visitors may the riots and what-not which pre-
For the last two ,years, Dean can rival the "panty raid," and it and faculties simply resign them- even, on occasion, outnumber home cede and follow.
Walter B. Rea has made elaborate generated no lingering enthusiasm. selves and attempt to bargain team fans. Distances between col- Often the games attract little
plans to foil any further attempts. with students to preserve some leges are short-only rarely does a attention outside the two schools
Last year, an advance guard snuck SCHOOL SPIRIT is a sometime semblance of academic discipline team play as far from home as but they are nonetheless fierce for
into one dorm, but the general thing. It manifests itself only during its more excessive out- Michigan does when it travels to that. "Colgate - Syracuse Week"
run-of-the-mill participant didn't on great occasions: victories over breaks. Iowa City or Minneapolis. goes unnoticed outside of central
State, Rose Bowls and the like. This nearness tends to breed New York. However, the adminis-
John Weicher recently is Fortunately for the University's EASTERN COLLEGES are "hot- natural rivalries in sports, which trations at both colleges have
I reputation in such matters, it re- spots'" of school spirit. For in- build up school spirit. Resulting agreed not to schedule papers and
pointed city editor of the ceived national attention twice last stance, at Colgate, students ac- are such avid competitors as the tests during that week. At Colgate,
Daily, had close contact wIth year for events of synthetic tually follow the football team-- famed "Big Three" of Harvard, the faculty has proposed that
school spirit while attending "spirit," the food riot at South all over the East, if necessary. It Princeton and Yale, the "Middle classes be abolished altogether.
an Eastern college. Quad and the Stockwell kissing is not uncommon for students to Three" of Lafayette, Lehigh and The single road between the two
ban. This year, so far, nothing has come out of an examination at 10 Rutgers and a "Little Three" of schools is heavily patrolled by
happened to lift the University a.m. on a Saturday and hitchhike Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams. (Continued on Nreat Page)
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