North House Holds Olympics

The North House Committee held its first Quad-wide Olympics Sunday, featuring 11 unconventional events ranging from pie-throwing to balloon-shaving.

The Olympics, which were last held in 1992, had previously been limited to North House residents. But the North House Committee voted Oct. 2 to invite members of the other Quad houses--Cabot and Currier--to the annual fall event.

Forty students took part in the event--18 North House residents, 16 Cabot House residents and six Currier House residents, according to Co-President Marcos D. Velayos '95. Katharine A. Woo '95, the committee co-president, organized the 11 events.

"A lot of people were happy about it," Velayos said. The limbo, the last event of the Olympics, involved nearly 50 Quad residents, Velayos said. He said the Olympics would probably remain Quad-wide in the future.

Though the Cabot House Committee voted last Sunday to accept the North House invitation, Currier House Committee members say they never formally voted on whether to participate in the Olympics because they received the invitation too late.

"We found out about this four days before, and a lot of people had made plans for the weekend," said Tony Cregler '96, vice president of the Currier House Committee. Late efforts were made to publicize the event, he said.

In other business, the committee will hold a winter formal meeting on Wednesday at 9 p.m. in Moors Hall.

The committee will also seek to repair cable wiring for several of its televisions and is organizing a "Jungle" dance this Saturday from 9 to 11 p.m.

The deadline for proposed House t-shirt designs will be Oct. 16. A meeting to discuss the committee's constitution will be held next Sunday at 9 p.m., Velayos announced last night.