At 9-15-2010 04:15 PM, Sara M. Fagan wrote:
>I was checking out some pictures of SLU's freshman orientation on 
>SLU's website.  It appears that they give each freshman a 
>cowbell.  I wonder if they were told that the NCAA won't allowthem 
>at hockey games.

As Far As I Know, the NCAA rule applies to giving away noisemakers 
*at games* as premiums.  Any rule about bringing noisemakers into the 
area is the decision of the individual arena management.

Again AFAIK, this rule goes back some 30-odd years to when RPI gave 
out cowbells one year, and those horns which we now know and loathe 
as vuvuzelas another.  It apparently also applies to thunder 
sticks.  RPI gave those out a year or so back, although you could 
only get one at the gate.  Even so, it seems that a number of them 
had been draped over seat backs prior to people being admitted to the 
Field House.  (Mercifully, not a lot of people used them for their 
intended purpose.)

Joe
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