Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, representatives of 58 national fraternities met in Washington. They worried about incidents which "had given fraternities a bad name" such as Dartmouth's Cirotta Case, Brown's brawls last spring, and Williams' troubles with fraternity drinking. They discussed the perpetual problem of raising money. But most important of all, they talked about bias...
...problem, as recently stated by one promoter, is simply this: "If we sell television rights, nobody comes to the fight. The only way for us to make a profit is to hang out the 'no television' sign." And that's just what is happening...
...television problem in football is less acute, but it's growing. Professional football a year ago reasoned the same way as boxing, and most teams boosted their attendance figures with bans on local TV. The colleges, however, have acted less quickly, largely because only he East had suffered attendance drops and because effective action against television would have to come from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The eastern schools, Harvard included, are currently gathered in New York for their annual meeting, and it's expected that they will try to agree on a united stand against TV to bring...
That these latter events are still selling television rights indicates more than the simple fact that some teams haven't yet made up their minds on the television problem. It points up the cogent consideration that where television doesn't cut substantially into the gate there is quite a bit to be said for having...
Book thieves are finding projects more challenging than Lamont this year. Philip J. McNiff, Head Librarian of Lamont, reported yesterday that the loss of books is less of a problem now than it was last year...