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October 12, 2006

This one time, in band camp . . . .

The University of Wisconsin's marching band has been placed on probation by the university after allegedly repeated, unspecified, boorish conduct.

The school is not releasing details on what happened during the trip to the Sept. 23 game. But Chancellor John Wiley described it in a letter to the band's director as behavior "that can be seen as anything from boorish and offensive to patently dangerous and unlawful."

Wiley warned in the letter he would consider suspending activities and travel of the band or replacing its leadership if there were more reports of "gratuitous vulgarity, sexualized banter or joking, hazing, or other forms of demeaning conduct."

. . . . He said some of the reports were from the bus trip home from Ann Arbor, Mich.

So now you know we've got visions in our heads of flutes poking into the no-no spots. And tubas being using in unholy manners. And piccolo players being diddled like they were French Horns.

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Posted by YMB Staff at October 12, 2006 10:50 AM