Shirt design ideas

I've received a few suggestions this week. Please take a look and offer your comments.

• A simple "Middlebury Crew" with crossed oars, like the Boathouse shirts we just got
• Putting the phrase "midd men get some" somewhere on the shirt- appealing to male athletes on campus...sorry women...
• "Staph" on the back of the shirt, probably "Middlebury Crew" on the front, play off a concert "Staff" shirt
• "Always Smooth" on the back, "Middlebury Crew" on the front

Please comment, and add your idea - I know I'm forgetting one.

-Evan

A Poem

Brightly Colored Boats Upturned on the Banks of the Charles

What is there to say about them
that has not been said in the title?
I saw them near dawn from a glassy room on the other side of that river,
which flowed from some hidden spring
to the sea; but that is getting away from
the brightly colored boats upturned
on the banks of the Charles,
the sleek racing sculls of a college crew team.

They were beautiful in the clear early light—
red, yellow, blue and green—
is all I wanted to say about them,
although for the rest of the day
I pictured a lighter version of myself
calling time through a little megaphone,
first to the months of the year,
then to the twelve apostles, all grimacing
as they leaned and pulled on the long wooden oars.

(Billy Collins)

Crew Featured in The Middlebury Campus

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