John T Whelan wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Spreeman, Cathryn wrote:
>
>> This weekend's home games against Vermont were the first games we have
>> attended in about a month, so I don't know how long this has been in
>> effect, but the UNH administration has decided that the song "Black
>> Betty" (Ram Jam, 1977) can no longer be played as the teams take to the
>> ice for the next period.  According to conversations among fellow
>> attendees, someone complained that it is racist.  I have always enjoyed
>> the song, and thought it was a fairly rousing, energizing song to play
>> as the teams skated onto the ice.  I particularly enjoyed it in the
>> movie, "Blow", as it plays while Johnnie Depp is walking through the
>> airport.
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>
>> Perhaps I should go to the Thought Police and turn myself in.
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>
> Or perhaps to the Excessively Dramatic Rhetoric Police.
>
> If UNH would just get themselves an actual pep band, this wouldn't be
> an issue.  The Yale band plays the song "Uncle F*cka" from the South
> Park movie and hasn't had any trouble that I know of.
>
>                                           John Whelan, Cornell '91
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Must be because Yale is a more "liberal" institution.  :)

B. Taylor, RPI '74