Basquiettes

The State U. art cheerleaders, the Basquiettes, accompanied the Film and Performance team to New York. But they had to pay their own way because the athletic department would only release so many dollars. They took a chartered bus, and on the way practiced their signature formations, the Eiffel Tower, the Di Suvero thrust, the Bourgeois spider.

The night of the first competition, they were legitimately credited with firing up the State U. team, who went on to a decisive win against the team from Pratt. Even the arrest of the Basquietts for performing the Di Suvero thrust drunk and naked in Times Square did not dampen the spirits of the team. They were out of jail in time for next State U. performance.