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.

> Perhaps I should go to the Thought Police and turn myself in.

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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