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"Bunk" was the most prevalent answer in an informal undergraduate poll taken yesterday to determine student opinion on the H.A.A. policy of excluding women from the cheering sections, 33 through 36. H.A.A. officials had previously declared that "the rule was being applied in the belief that student wanted women kept out of those sections."

"Clean-cut girls actually enhance the cheering section, as far as I'm concerned," said Gordon Gray '47. "Besides, if the H.A.A. ever went to a game, they would know that the rule isn't observed."

Relaxation of Rule

"Relaxation of the rule would give student rooters something besides their programs to look at during time-out periods," added Earnest I. Sly '50.

Sole backer of the present ticket allotment system was Henry S. Williams '50, serious-minded grandstand quarterback, who said, "A woman's place is in the home, not in the cheering section. When one of them behind me comes out with such remarks as: 'Oh, look! My cute number 60 is limping,' it drives me nuts!"

For the woman's side of the question, Nastalthia Smythe- Heatherstone. Radcliffe '44, said, "But natch, I mean after all, especially college women. I mean really!"

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