The Reporter's Notebook

Mmmm, Mmmm Good

With milk moustaches and cookie crumbs falling from their smiling mouths, students broke from their studies Wednesday night to attend milk and cookie pit stops sponsored by the Undergraduate Council.

The council, in conjunction with the Crimson Key Society, is sponsoring a series of reading and exam period milk and cookie parties. Each Wednesday from 10 to 11 p.m., students hitting the books in Lamont and Hilles Libraries can feast on a variety of goodies.

At this week's study break in Lamont, roughly 100 students closed their books and put away their papers long enough to partake of Oreos with doublestuff, chocolate striped cookies, the Almost Home, the Chips Ahoy! chewy chocolate chip cookies and other sugary delights.

But 10 minutes into the break, thirsty students had already gulped down all of the milk, although the bags of store-bought cookies lasted through the hour-long munch fest.

The council appropriated $800 for the series of study breaks, and the Crimson Key contributed $200 to the events.

Students at the break, which take place on the fifth floor of Lamont, said they were surprised and pleased that the council was sponsoring the milk and cookie breaks. "I had no idea this was going to be here," said John M. Bernheimer '90. "[And] I just had something to eat from Store 24."

"I heard a guy hollering," said Millard B. Rice '89. "I let out a little whoop, and here I am."

Coaching on the Sidelines

Harvard men's basketball Coach Pete Roby took up a new job on the side (lines) this weekend: cheerleading.

Several times during Harvard's dramatic sweep of Penn and Princeton, Roby pranced up and down the court, exhorting the large Briggs Athletic Center crowds to stand and cheer for his cagers. The partisan fans responded to Roby's arm waves, and--perhaps, not coincidentally--the Crimson players did too with a pair of upsets.

Asked about his actions, Roby replied, "I've got to do what I've got to do" to win the game.

Splish! Splash! Takin' a Bath

Nude swimming, that favorite Adams House pasttime, is back at last.

Ever since house officials refilled the pool last week, a few students have managed to sneak in for a little mid-reading period skinny dipping. And students say the pool, which has been closed since the end of the summer, is better than ever.

One Adams House resident, Mitchell A. Orenstein '89, said he has tested the waters several times in the past week with a few of his friends. "The thing about the pool is that it's an invitation to decadence," Orenstein said.

The house pool won't officially reopen, however, until the proper chemicals are added in the next week or so. At that time, Adams officials say a grand reopening is in the works.

Centurian Back in the News

McGeorge Bundy, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is mediating a dispute over admitting women to an East Coast all-male social club, the New York Times reported last week.

The Century Association, which is housed in a three story townhouse on New York's West 43rd St., is a watering hole for 1900 of the city's prominent artists and authors. Last summer the exclusive club signed an agreement which promised that it would abide by a state anti-discrimination law--only if it was upheld by New York's highest court.

Bundy, a New York University professor who was national security advisor during the Kennedy Administration, is serving as the chairman of a committee reconsidering the club decision in favor of admitting women. Bundy's committee could recommend that the 139-year old social organization make the necessary financial changes to avoid being held under the law.

"We have to ask ourselves a broad set of questions about what kind of club the Century would be if it met the requirements of the law in some other way," Bundy told the New York Times.

Stop in The Name of Love

Those folks down at City Hall will be making it easier for Harvard students to get to classes second semester. Last Monday night the nine-member Cambridge City Council passed an order instructing the Traffic and Parking Department to install a stop sign at the Johnson Gate crossing on Massachusetts Ave.