Ivy League Notebook and Yale Index

Ivy League Notebook

Princeton students will soon have the unique opportunity to study art on art. The newest addition to Princeton's outdoor sculpture collection, a piece by artist Scott Burton called "Public Table," will look basically like a really big top. The table will measure 13 feet in diameter and will be made of smooth reinforced concrete. According to art museum staff, Burton would "like people to sit on it." General contractor John Hicks is optimistic about student response to the sculpture: "I'm sure there are going to be 50 kids at any one time sitting on the end of that thing."

Columbia

Eight lucky Columbia students will be chosen at random next month to participate in the "Trading Places" program, in which students will follow members of the Student Services Executive Staff in their daily routine for a week and vice versa. The students will get up to go to their first executive meeting at 8:00 a.m., followed by another meeting, and then some more meetings. Members of the Executive Staff will sleep in, cut class, watch The Simpsons, and eat crappy dining hall food. At the end of the program, all participants will meet for dinner and take a commemorative photo.

Harvard

On Sat., Oct. 24, the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) performed its annual "Wyld Hunt" ceremony. Fifteen of Harvard's freakiest donned spandex and blue body paint and chased antler-wearing Erin R. Leonard '02 down Brattle Street. Last year's "stag," Matthew G. Withers '01, recalled, "People just look at us and say, `That's really strange.'" The HRSFA sponsors science fiction writing workshops, supports a 3,000-volume library of books, videos, comics, and games, and hosts "Gameathons" that last up to 50 hours. And yes, the HRSFA does have an MIT contingent.

--Compiled by Gaylen Moore from The Daily Princetonian, The Columbia Daily Spectator, and The Harvard Crimson.

YALE INDEX
1. Length of John Glenn's liftoff, in seconds	15
2. Length of Bill Clinton's, LAW'73, grand jury testimony, in seconds	14,580
3. Lateness of John Glenn's liftoff, in minutes	19
4. Lateness of Bill Clinton's admonition of guilt, in months	7
5. Age of John Glenn during his "second time around," in years	77
6. Age of Bill Clinton while watching, in person, Glenn's "second time around," in years	32
7. Age of John Glenn during his "first time around," in years	41
8. Age of Bill Clinton during his "first time around," in years	unknown
9. Last time a sitting president witnessed, in person, a space shuttle launch	1969
10. Number of U.S. presidents to face impeachment proceedings	3
11. Number of said presidents who witnessed, in person, space shuttle launches	2

-Compiled by Christopher M. Burke and Sumit K. De

Sources: 1) CNN; 2) allpolitics.com; 3,7,9) msnbc.com; 4) Kenneth Starr; 5) Newsweek, Mon., Oct. 26; 6) Clinton's birth certificate; 10,11)CMB, SKD

PATRICK MCGARVEY/YH POETIC LICENSE: Lara Coggin, SY'99, was one of approximately 25 students who shared their work at the biannual 'Yale Literary Magazine' poetry reading on Tues., Oct. 27.

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