Dean Rosovsky to 'Touch Down' at Alma Mater

DEAN ROSOVSKY isn't generally associated with Harvard football fervor, but the Associated Harvard Alumni and the Harvard Club of Virginia are using him to attract alums to next week's football game at William and Mary. The dean, a William and Mary grad, will host a lunch--billed as a "Touch Down with Dean Henry Rosovsky"--prior to the game. Presumably, donations will result for the Harvard Campaign. Asked about the game, Rosovsky said, "If you ask me to predict a score, I would predict a tie. Actually, I can't lose in that game...But my relations with Harvard are so much closer now than with William and Marry that I find it very easy to root for Harvard." Rosovsky added that the AHA expects approximately 300 people to attend the event.

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If you hang around the wet-haired female denizens of Blodgett Pool--the Harvard women's swim team--long enough, you might hear them saying unusual things like, "Today we swam to New York City!" or, "Today we swam all the way to Reno, Nevada!" Don't be too perturbed; the women are just discussing their novel fund-raising approach for the upcoming winter trip to California. The 30-member squad has decided to collectively swim 3000 miles over the next four weeks--approximately the distance between Boston and Los Angeles. According to co-captain MAUREEN GILDEA, this breaks down to about 6000 yards per day for each member of the team--about 240 laps of a 25-yd. pool. Instead of just requesting donations, the team is asking that friends of the women's swimming program sponsor them for various portions of the journey. "We'll accept donations from absolutely anyone--I'd like to stress that," Gildea added laughingly....

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The football team goes for meat and potatoes and anything else they can get their hands on. The women's basketball team is know for its predilection for Cahaly's ice cream. And the lithe, lean and weight-conscious members of the women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL says. "After weigh-in, anything is game for eating." The crew, which has 130 pounds as a maximum weight limit, usually is chaned to cans of tuna fish and Tab in the spring to meet the scale's demands--and that means few, if any, of the multi-colored treats if the poundage amount registered is not correct. Although Hassel avers that the squad is unusually light for this time of the year, she says that the boat that rowed in the Head of the Charles two weeks ago had to be shifted around the night before the race so that the average waight of the baot could be adjusted downwards five pounds to 125. "We decided that I should not row," Hassel laughs. The team--which features outstanding returners like JOLINE BLAIS, MARTHA JOHNSON, MAUREEN LAMB, and LISA ERBURU, took the silver in the South Hadley event, as well as sixth out of ten boats in the highly competitive Head contest...The crew team is another Crimson squad that is itching to train in sunny paradises during school breaks. "We've endured countless Spring Breaks at Harvard while we were doing our heavy training," Hassel notes. "This year we're going to try to get down to Florida. I guess you could say it's 'Florida or Bust' for us...."

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When women's field hockey coach EDIE MACAUSLAND became engaged last week, the team vowed to win for her "sometime," junior co-captain MAUREEN FINN says. That sometime came last Tuesday when the stickwomen defeated the University of Rhode Island, 4-1, on a drenched and muddy Soldiers Field. "I wonder if it says something about us that we only won our first and last home games in the pouring rain," Finn mused....