Has anybody heard of Harvey Mud (sp?). The Madison Area Jugglers/Unicyclers were
out practicing enjoying the wether when a family came up asking the usual
questions about unicycling (how do you balance on it, how long did it take to
learn, ect.). Then the proceeded to tell me that their son was going to Harvey
Mud for college and he had to learn to ride a unicycle. He went on to say that
the college boasts of a 20:1 student to unicycle ratio. This got me interested,
a collage that actually endorses unicycling! At our college the ratio would be
something like 5000:1. Of all my years of unicycling I have never heard of this
college. I was told that the college is in Southern California and is on par
with MIT. Has anybody heard of it?
Andy B. Cotter CAE UW - Madison cotter@cae.wisc.edu Application Support
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 13:43:26 CDT From: cotter@cae.wisc.edu
Has anybody heard of Harvey Mud (sp?). The Madison Area Jugglers/Unicyclers
were out practicing enjoying the wether when a family came up asking the
usual questions about unicycling (how do you balance on it, how long did it
take to learn, ect.). Then the proceeded to tell me that their son was going
to Harvey Mud for college and he had to learn to ride a unicycle. He went on
to say that the college boasts of a 20:1 student to unicycle ratio. This got
me interested, a collage that actually endorses unicycling! At our college
the ratio would be something like 5000:1. Of all my years of unicycling I
have never heard of this college. I was told that the college is in Southern
California and is on par with MIT. Has anybody heard of it?
Funk & Wagnalls have heard of it:
CLAREMONT 890922
Claremont, city, Los Angeles Co., SW California, in the Pomona Valley, at the
foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1907. Manufactures include scientific
instruments, batteries, and processed food. The city is the site of the
Claremont University Center, which includes Pomona College (1887), Claremont
Graduate School (1925), Scripps College (1926), Claremont McKenna College
(1946), Harvey Mudd College (1955), and Pitzer College (1963). Founded in 1886
by a land development company, the community probably is named for Claremont,
N.H. Pop. (1970) 24,776; (1980) 30,950.
>Has anybody heard of Harvey Mud (sp?). The Madison Area Jugglers/Unicyclers >were out practicing enjoying the wether when a family came up asking the usual >questions about unicycling (how do you balance on it, how long did it take to >learn, ect.). Then the proceeded to tell me that their son was going to Harvey >Mud for college and he had to learn to ride a unicycle. He went on to say that >the college boasts of a 20:1 student to unicycle ratio. This got me interested, >a collage that actually endorses unicycling! At our college the ratio would be >something like 5000:1. Of all my years of unicycling I have never heard of this >college. I was told that the college is in Southern California and is on par >with MIT. Has anybody heard of it?
Harvey Mudd is a small, mainly (entirely?) undergraduate school in
Claremont, CA, to the east of Los Angeles. It's admission standards and
engineering programs are, in many ways, on a par with MIT, although it
is much smaller. Although Caltech is often considered the preeminent Los
Angeles area science and engineering school, Harvey Mudd alumni will
assure you that their education was at least equivalent. Harvey Mudd is
a member of the Claremont Colleges.
Harvey Mudd is, indeed, a hotbed of unicycling activity, and has been
for at least the last decade. Unicycle basketball is a favorite, as are
7-mile "Fosters runs" (expeditions for ice cream). Other challenge
activities include stair hopping and auditorium obstacle courses.
Most of my information in this message comes from Jeff Deifik
<JDeifik@ISI.Edu>, a Harvey Mud graduate (and proud of it!). Harvey Mudd
is on the Internet -- try domain CLAREMONT.EDU. Andy Davenport
<andy@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU> is listed as the technical contact. Perhaps
he knows of a unicycler to contact.
Now you might ask, why am I, here in Los Angeles, not looking to recruit
this wonderful source of new members for our glorious society? :-) Gee,
uh, I don't know... I hope my parents don't find out! :-)
Craig Milo Rogers See you in Adrian, MI
> Has anybody heard of Harvey Mud (sp?). The Madison Area
Yes, I’ve heard of it. It’s indeed true, most of the students that go there know
how to uni. I’ve a friend that went there, and he always tells me tales about
the unicycles outnumbering the bicycles in the bike racks…
>favorite, as are 7-mile “Fosters runs” (expeditions for ice cream).
I have been corrected: these expeditions are for donuts, not ice cream.
That makes more sense, too -- unicycles and donuts! :-)
Craig Milo Rogers See you in Adrian, MI
> > Has anybody heard of Harvey Mud (sp?). The Madison Area Jugglers/Unicyclers > were out practicing enjoying the wether when a family came up asking the usual > questions about unicycling (how do you balance on it, how long did it take to > learn, ect.). Then the proceeded to tell me that their son was going to Harvey > Mud for college and he had to learn to ride a unicycle. He went on to say that > the college boasts of a 20:1 student to unicycle ratio. This got me > interested, a collage that actually endorses unicycling! At our college the > ratio would be something like 5000:1. Of all my years of unicycling I have > never heard of this college. I was told that the college is in Southern > California and is on par with MIT. Has anybody heard of it? > __________________________________________________________________________ > Andy B. Cotter CAE UW - Madison cotter@cae.wisc.edu Application Support >
Wasn’t there a High School somewhere where most of the students rode unis? It
seems to me that I remember a blurb on the CBS evening news back when I was a
youth (late sixties, early seventies) about this. If memory serves, it was in
the Midwestern U.S., either Ohio or Indiana. I remember the blurb quite well,
the students were riding their unis through the halls of the school and damn
near everyone was riding!
>Wasn’t there a High School somewhere where most of the students rode unis? It >seems to me that I remember a blurb on the CBS evening news back when I was a >youth (late sixties, early seventies) about this. If memory serves, it was in >the Midwestern U.S., either Ohio or Indiana. I remember the blurb quite well, >the students were riding their unis through the halls of the school and damn >near everyone was riding!
Relayed from the USA Historian:
The answer is St. Helens School, Newbury, Ohio and the leader was
Father James Moran; find out more in the Unicycle book by Dr. Wiley,
pg. 41 and 45.
Craig Milo Rogers See you in Adrian, MI
Well, to say that the unicycles outnumber the bicycles would be incorrect, but
there are a lot of unis at Mudd. Actually the skateboards probably outnumber
both kinds of cycles combined.
The local uni club is called Gonzo Unicycle Madness with about 30 to 40
members, which is maybe 5% of the student body. Mudd is entirely devoted to
undergraduate science education. Maybe half the students are engineers with
the rest being math, chem, physics, bio, or CS majors. (We just added bio
and CS a couple years ago.) Unicyclists tend to be math majors and several
juggle as well, riding or not.
I'm not quite sure who would be a good person to contact with regards to
local uni activity. It is not me. My own interest in the beasties tends to
fluctuate from just this side of apathy to a vehement desire to take
thermite and slag all I can find. (Of course that tends to be modulated by,
um, shall we say, other personal factors.) In any case most Mudders don't
check email often during the summer. Most of the avid Unics I know
graduated, but perhaps people might try writing Jim Frinier
(jfrinier@jarthur.claremont.edu)
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