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