HI! Let me start this off be saying that I am a member of the Brown Band and that I do not i any way try to speak for the Band or the University, only for my l'il sweet self. I can understand a college's wanting to ban a band from a rink for inappropriate behavior. Throwing objects onto the ice, being excessively rude and vulgar, repeatedly playing loudly during play, etc. are all understandable reasons to keep out a particular visting pep band. I do not think, however, that *all* visiting bands should be banned from any rink unless it has done something very wrong. I'd like to point out that the behavior I listed above (at least from what I've seen) is a problem, at least for our band. I'd also like to note that only one song or cheer that I can think of is any ruder than RPI's chant, "What color is dog s***? BROWN! BROWN! BROWN!" It must be a fairly sad state of affairs if only a handful of people from a visiting pep band can drown out 1000 or more people. Very often, visiting bands are about the only support a visiting team has in an away game and I dont't think it makes very much sense to ban them from the rink unless they've done something really wrong. I think that pep bands are largely self-policing when it comes to behavior and playing during the action, but I think it's still a good idea if all the ECAC bands got together and came up with some sort of "code of conduct" for behavior at home and away games. Chris Gorski [log in to unmask]