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One Time at Band Camp…
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Well, we all know how that ends! Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself! Although here’s a new one for you…One time at Camp Randall I went to watch a football game and the marching band was suspended indefinitely while allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct were investigated. Consequently ending up in not playing Saturday during a nationally televised football game as the Suckeyes came calling! Well, shit…It’s no wonder why the Fighting Buckies lost. Oh no, hold up…That’s right…That was complements of Terrell Pryor.
Allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct on a college campus, oh no, that doesn’t happen at all…That’s like saying, that there’s women who pose nude in Playboy who are airbrushed! So what was head marcher himself Mike Leckrone to do, decided for the first time in his tenure the entire band, (all 300 members) has been suspended and prevented from playing at a game. However, I’m curious as to what kind of hazing goes on amongst a band. What, are the drum dudes forced to play tubas? And if they don’t oblige do other band members force their heads down the tuba as someone plays it. Or if not that, are band members forced to make a "cymbal sandwich" with their melons as they get their ears bashed in? And we all know how lovely that feels! The silver lining here, the Marching Buckies better be thankful that this didn’t happen at "Band Camp"…Undoubtedly, the punishment would’ve been a lot harsher…With the punishment being a lifetime ban from the camp! And we all know how fun and how one can thoroughly enjoy themselves at "Band Camp", now don’t we? Especially with a flute!
We’ve heard of players from every sport’s genre being held accountable for their actions by getting suspended. We’ve heard about mascots, (as ludicrous as it sounds) falling into the same category, but a marching band? Not just single out a few members, but all 300…Yeah, I can see football coaches across the country taking this approach! Couldn’t Leckrone just take away the "Band Camp" privileges to the Bad Buckies? Although last year Joe Pa did start his own "Postgame Sanitizing Services" for free compliments of his Mean Machine bunch at the State Penn. Ironically though, this isn’t the first time the Madison Marchers have made headlines…Surprisingly enough and as crazy as it may sound it's the latest in a series of high profile problems for the band.
In February 2007 the marching band's assistant director Michael Lorenz resigned after an internal report criticized his treatment of a female colleague during a rowdy band trip to Michigan in 2006. Reports of band members' hazing, alcohol use and inappropriate sexual behavior prompted the university to put the band on probation after the trip. So now we all know, it’s not the Greek Life that you want to be involved with on the Madison campus…Hell no! It’s the Band Life! That’s where the party’s at! Then-Chancellor John Wiley threatened band members with losing performance and travel privileges. In an October 2006 letter to Leckrone, he called band members' behavior "boorish to patently dangerous and unlawful," as seminude band members were alleged to have danced suggestively and there were reports of women being forced to kiss other women to be allowed to enter bathrooms on a bus. Damn, America Pie cast members would be so proud! There’s no telling what Alyson Hannigan would do!
Would she let Terrell Pryor score…Hmm?
