Larry said:
>> I would be happy with RPI if they could just manage to stand
>>reasonably still for the Star Spangled Banner and if their fans did not
>>trivialize a national Anthem by using it as a "fight song".
Mark added, among other things:
>That said, I agree that this trivializes the anthem and is in
>poor taste.
I think once you take a stirring, patriotic poem about perseverance against
adversity, and ruin it by setting it to the tune of a popular bawdy
drinking song, almost anything you do to it afterwards is an improvement.
Jeffrey Anbinder, CU '94
Ithaca Times Hockey Columnist
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