Wisconsin Band

Tricky_Falcon · Post by **Tricky_Falcon** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:41 pm

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/inde ... tid=102670

Editorial: On the march against band
An editorial

File photo
UW Marching Band at Camp Randall Stadium
The question is: Has the University of Wisconsin's marching band done something so egregious that it deserves to be put on strict probation or has the ghost of Puritan Cotton Mather reappeared on the UW campus in the form of Chancellor John Wiley?

Wiley has the band's fans scratching their heads over what it was that some of its members did during or after its appearance Sept. 23 at the UW-Michigan game in Ann Arbor that has so infuriated Wiley. But neither the chancellor nor his office is saying and the band members claim they can't figure out what it could have been.

All anyone knows is that Wiley is fed up with the band's behavior and he's laid down the law that if something untoward happens again, the band will do without some of its critical parts or maybe even be disbanded as a whole. And that goes for band director Mike Leckrone too.

Which leads us to wonder who will be booed louder at a football game that's minus Leckrone's band - the opposing team or Chancellor John Wiley?

Published: October 11, 2006

SaxyIrishTenor · Post by **SaxyIrishTenor** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:04 pm

I want to know what they did.

Falcon30 · Post by **Falcon30** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:38 pm

Probably has to do with faking a seizure

SaxyIrishTenor · Post by **SaxyIrishTenor** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:07 pm

Falcon30 wrote:Probably has to do with faking a seizure

Wha?

bgmaggot00 · Post by **bgmaggot00** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:04 am

From the Chicago Tribune:

UW details marching band conduct that led to probation

By Ryan J. Foley
The Associated Press
Published October 12, 2006, 3:56 PM CDT

MADISON, Wis. -- Members of the University of Wisconsin marching band routinely engaged in inappropriate hazing involving alcohol and sexual behavior, the school said Thursday in explaining its decision to put the band on probation.

UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said in a statement that a band member was pressured into shaving his head in a hazing incident and other members danced seminude during the band's trip to the Sept. 23 University of Michigan football game.

Wiley said those behaviors, the latest after several years of reported misconduct, prompted him to warn the band's 300 members to shape up or risk losing their travel and performance privileges.

Other behaviors attributed to band members in the past include:

-- female members being forced to kiss each other to gain entry to bus bathrooms.

-- women being forced to draw pornographic pictures for more senior band members.

-- younger band members being forced to run errands and refill beer cups for older members.

``From reports we have received, it has become increasingly clear that certain types of sexualized and hazing behavior are an ingrained part of the band's culture,'' Wiley said. ``We will not provide an ongoing venue for this inappropriate and demeaning behavior.''

Copyright © 2006, The Associated Press

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:11 am

Whoa, whoa, whoa....that's all? Isn't this the same school were a RB beat the s*** out of a woman at a party and only got a few games suspension?

bgbill · Post by **bgbill** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:48 pm

more info:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/13018.html

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:58 pm

Whoa.

Tricky_Falcon · Post by **Tricky_Falcon** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:04 pm

This one time at band camp...

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:33 pm

FliccGirl wrote:Whoa.

Is that a "Whoa! I can't believe they did that." Or was it "Whoa, I can't believe what I was missing!"

"What do you think band camp is, it's sex ed."

Falcon30 · Post by **Falcon30** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:54 pm

SaxyIrishTenor wrote:
Falcon30 wrote:Probably has to do with faking a seizure
Wha?

Sorry - I was trying to make fun of their marching style

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:23 pm

Tricky_Falcon wrote:This one time at band camp...

Rightupinthere wrote:Is that a "Whoa! I can't believe they did that." Or was it "Whoa, I can't believe what I was missing!"

"What do you think band camp is, it's sex ed."

That's right, make fun of the flute player.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:37 pm

Why do they need a band?

They can just play the other tracks on their House of Pain album.

"Put on your sh!tkickers and kick some sh!t"

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:03 pm

I wish you all could have heard the email that one of their band members wrote to Dr. Hayward/the FMB after the clash in Cleveland. Some girl wrote an extensive email full of her highest remarks and compliments. She almost sounded jealous. Particular words that stood out in the letter were 'your band has class' and 'we're not used to being congradulated by the opposing band as we come off of the field...' When Dr. Hayward was reading the email to us she literally started glowing when she read the part about us having class as it has seemingly been one of her highest priorities to establish the FMB as a true class act. I wonder if Mr. Leckrone has said anything to the effect of "why can't ya'll be more like that falcon band?' in the past week or two?

SaxyIrishTenor · Post by **SaxyIrishTenor** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:02 am

The Niz wrote:I wish you all could have heard the email that one of their band members wrote to Dr. Hayward/the FMB after the clash in Cleveland. Some girl wrote an extensive email full of her highest remarks and compliments. She almost sounded jealous. Particular words that stood out in the letter were 'your band has class' and 'we're not used to being congradulated by the opposing band as we come off of the field...' When Dr. Hayward was reading the email to us she literally started glowing when she read the part about us having class as it has seemingly been one of her highest priorities to establish the FMB as a true class act. I wonder if Mr. Leckrone has said anything to the effect of "why can't ya'll be more like that falcon band?' in the past week or two?

Well, when you come from the Big Ten, I doubt you get congratulated...