Band Nerds Haze?
October 8, 2008
Wisconsin suspends band amid investigation of hazing, sexual misconduct - ESPN.com
So Wisconsin gets the band banned. For hazing. Who new band nerds could be so frisky. If people only new. Marching bands on college campuses are the largest “fraternity”. They recruit, haze and all call it tradition. The best parties open to non-greeks [and greeks] alike were the band parties. Football players and others showed after games for debauchery. It is the best unknown fact that the band nerds party like it’s 1999.
I remember freshman year, led by blindfold and corralled. Drenched in ceremonies and whispered in freaky but childish hazes. I could go on forever and it would surprise you [or not] the freak show it was. And I paid it forward. Wisconsin got caught doing what any large group of post teen co-eds will do, sex games and drinking. They just screwed and called it tradition.
Part of me says “Go Band Nerds! Get your freak on.” Another says “Doh, they still do that.”
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October 13th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
We called our band parties “ghetto-fabulous” because we had them in a ghetto-ass apartment in North Philadelphia. I’d give my TSP (aka Govie 401(k)) to go back to the days of mellophone players couch dancing and listening to Jay-Z too loud, all with a Zima in my hand. Ahhh…memories!