This weekend's home games against Vermont were the first games we have
attended in about a month, so I don't know how long this has been in
effect, but the UNH administration has decided that the song "Black
Betty" (Ram Jam, 1977) can no longer be played as the teams take to the
ice for the next period.  According to conversations among fellow
attendees, someone complained that it is racist.  I have always enjoyed
the song, and thought it was a fairly rousing, energizing song to play
as the teams skated onto the ice.  I particularly enjoyed it in the
movie, "Blow", as it plays while Johnnie Depp is walking through the
airport.  

 

Perhaps I should go to the Thought Police and turn myself in.

 

Cathryn C. Spreeman

UNH '72