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This week The Yale Daily News announced, under the headline “Barely Legal Frosh Pose as Pin-ups,” that a dozen male Trumbull College first-years had bared their chests for a $7 calendar, with proceeds to benefit an organization called Women for Dignity and Self-Reliance. While such comfort with the scantily clad male body is both rare and laudable in frosty New England, the Yale calendar unfortunately exhibits the prudishness and lack of self-perception we have come to expect of Elis...
Women for Dignity and Self-Reliance is certainly not the first charitable organization to benefit from a revealing calendar. In recent years, organizations ranging from Cincinnati’s Civic Garden Center to the Maple Corner, Vt. community center have sold calendars featuring nude volunteers discreetly shielded by shrubbery or bales of hay. Trumbull first-years’ failure to follow suit by performing a full monty (or, as the gentlemen of Maple Corner render it, a full Vermonty) can only be seen as further evidence of Yale students’ sexual repression...
That part of the puck calendar starts this weekend, with the Crimson’s absolutely critical home series with an upstart Colgate (3-1 in its last four games) and rival Cornell, which is now two points ahead of Harvard atop the ECAC standings and—as always—might have a fan or two more than the Crimson this weekend at Bright Hockey Center...
...will be the event that catapults the sport into the same arena as other global championships. Malcolm Gray, president of the International Cricket Council, is already claiming victory: "The tournament has grown beyond all expectations," he says. "It is now one of the greatest sporting events on the world calendar." Host nation South Africa needs that to be the case. It is using the cricket competition to showcase not only its potential as an international sporting venue but also its post-apartheid aura of unity and democracy. The country hosted, and won, the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and was beaten...
...said the Council "has beginning to reassess the fundamental basis of our calendar," and was beginning to think about the best way to cut costs. By starting the fall term in warm weather, around labor Day, the University would not need to use as much beating during the term and would keep its expenses down, Fog said...