Dave Kaufman writes:
 
>The Big Red Freakout at RPI is the one give-away of the year.  A couple of
>years before I was there (around '85, I think) they handed out plastic horns.
>The game was against Brown.  The Brown coach was so upset at the amount of
>noise in the Feildhouse [sic] that he got the infamous "RPI rule" enacted.
>This rule states..."no artificial noisemakers shall be used by any person
>attending a NCAA event during the course of play."...
 
Is this rule still valid?  Does it apply to those blue-and-white clapping things
which everyone in the state of Maine seems to have or to the cowbells that the
BU Band (among others) uses?  (nothing against Maine--they have the most
dedicated fans.  :-))
 
--Carl Ford
  BU '93