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...council president, Mahan has succeeded in raising the Student Activities Fee by $25, and using the extra $100,000 generated by the hike as leverage to sign comedian Jim Breuer and rock legend Bob Dylan for performances this fall...
...other on a citywide ballot. Rather than casting a single vote, Cambridge voters rank their top nine choices, and a candidate wins a seat on the council when he or she receives “quota,” defined as one-tenth of the votes cast plus one extra vote. The system is problematic because it allowed the defeat this spring of MIT alum and students’ rights activist Matt S. DeBergalis—despite the fact that he received more first-place votes than two of the re-elected incumbents...
...suddenly on the morning of the contest, The Game was cancelled. According to an extra edition of the Yale Daily News, 16 football players had come down with gonorrhea contracted from three Yale cheerleaders in a party after the Brown game six weeks earlier. Harvard had won by forfeit...
...fifty thousand who watched the Harvard-Yale contest in the Bowl on November 22, 1969 know that The Game was, indeed, not cancelled. By that time of the afternoon, many of them realized that the Yalie Daily extra was not produced by Eli staffers, but by members of The Harvard Crimson aiming to shake the already nervous New Haven community...
Many Harvard students believed the made-up news about Kissinger as many will probably believe whatever the Yalie Daily should come up with next. So if some startling news should take the form of a Crimson extra this weekend, don’t swallow it—at least right...