I second your observation Lindsay!  


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lindsay Huntoon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: BU game in Boston


> Try going to a game out at UMass Amherst; they're the worst of the bunch.
> 
> Bob Fitta wrote:
> 
>> Hey Dan and Maine hockey community,
>>
>> The actions that night by the students and the youth hockey team  
>> prompted me to send an email to Joe Bertagna.  BU, which HAD been the  
>> better of the Boston schools, was a real disappointment.  NU has also  
>> gone down a similar road as their band participates in the cheers 
>> that  incorporate the new trendy "suck" cheer.  And BC is the worst of 
>> the  bunch!  It is truly amazing that the college hockey community in 
>> Boston  at all the schools resorts to the suck cheer and seems to not 
>> have an  original bone.
>>
>> I think aside from the behavior of the Maine fans at one of the home  
>> games vs. UNH last year, the greatest thing about Maine fans and the  
>> student section is their ability to be creative with their cheers.   
>> Will be interested to see if this is really enforced when MAINE plays  
>> at BU in NOvember.
>>
>> Bob Fitta '83
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Dan Doucette wrote:
>>
>>> Hopefully, the Agganis staff will enforce this new rule, read link  
>>> below:
>>>
>>> I'd rather not see a repeat of last year, where BU students (their  
>>> actions are not my concern) incited a young hockey team to repeat a  
>>> mocking of a Maine cheer, where they used the "F-word".  I had been  
>>> tempted to visit that team's adult supervisor to voice my  
>>> disappointment with their action, but this year I will alert arena  
>>> staff should it happen again. 
>>>
>>> http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/12/ 
>>> bu_moves_to_clean_up_foul_language_at_games/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Bob Fitta
>> Director of Advertising
>> Harvard Magazine
>> 617-496-6631
>>
> 
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> Lindsay A. Huntoon
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