Good posting, James ... thanks!
 
>I have to compliment Cornell for their crowd support. As one Cornell fan
>attested to, the crowds use of possibly crude obnoxious behavior does keep the
>fans and the team into the game. I am not sure on the bands participation in
>such cheers, but from personal exper. I know the Clarkson Band has restrictions
>put upon it by our University. We are not allowed to use four letter words, als
>including suck. Lets be honest though, we don't discourage our fans from using
>such language as long as the puck is in motion. However if the puck is not in
>motion either the entire band will play, or I (drummer) will start some sort of
>cheer to drwon out the fans. Its not something I like to do, but am under
>instruction from our arena director and Athletic director that this is to be
>commonplace at Clarkson.
>
>  Cornell fans earn the right of bearing the most organized groups of fans in
> the
>the ECAC. With my experiences I must compliment the LSSU fans, as well as the
>skating cheerleaders with fans in MInnesota, by the way does anyone else have
>skating cheerleaders? And if anyone wants ideas how to handle them ie.
>make fun of them I have a few techniques we used.
>JR