When I returned from a week's vacation, my mailbox was filled with the expected hundreds of messages from Hockey-L (thanks!). Among these were another thread about bands, this time devoted to the RPI-Brown game. Two thoughts. I can only recall about two occasions in the 10 years that I was at RPI that a visiting team brought its band along. (This might be faulty memory.) I wonder why this practice has apparently increased. (Higher band budgets?, greater interest in hockey vs b-ball among teams that RPI faces?) Sometime last summer it was announced that the RPI-Brown game would be shown on closed circuit TV as RPI's annual televised game. Eventually it was decided that the RPI-Clarkson in Potsdam would be shown instead. I asked a couple of people if they knew why these plans were changed and one of the replies that I received was that Brown did not want to participate in this -- they did not think that there would be significant interest in attendence by their Alumni. Does anyone actually have the facts about this? Ralph Baer RPI '68, '70, '74