Important message to ice hockey ticket holders

[amerks127]

Hello Season Ticket Holders,

Cornell University promotes good sportsmanship and has zero tolerance for any profanity, racial/sexist comments, or other intimidating actions at intercollegiate athletic events.  The penalty for violating this policy is expulsion from the game and revocation of season tickets. There are no verbal warnings or second chances given for violation of this policy.

Furthermore, the band will not be permitted to play "Gary Glitter" at Cornell men's ice hockey games if students continue to chant a profane version of "Rough 'em up, rough 'em up, go CU."

Thank you for your cooperation in promoting good sportsmanship and in creating an inviting atmosphere (no profane language) in Lynah Rink.

GO BIG RED!

[Robb]

[quote amerks127]Hello Season Ticket Holders,

Cornell University promotes good sportsmanship and has zero tolerance for any profanity, racial/sexist comments, or other intimidating actions at intercollegiate athletic events.  The penalty for violating this policy is expulsion from the game and revocation of season tickets. There are no verbal warnings or second chances given for violation of this policy.

Furthermore, the band will not be permitted to play "Gary Glitter" at Cornell men's ice hockey games if students continue to chant a profane version of "Rough 'em up, rough 'em up, go CU."

Thank you for your cooperation in promoting good sportsmanship and in creating an inviting atmosphere (no profane language) in Lynah Rink.

GO BIG RED![/quote]

Wow - I had no idea it was October.  I simply must go and check my calendar...  ::screwy::

[upperdeck]

Ok.. let me ask this.. when was the last time they fired someone from day hall when they swore out loud at the computer because the thing didnt act as expected?

I also expect that cornell no longer promotes playing any movies at its cinemas that promote use of foul language.

and any player who gets caught swearing in a game should get expelled.

and does this go for the ushers\\police as well who violate the polices

and wouldnt all the chants be counted as intimdating actions? or any cheering at all in a loud manner?

[Aro23r]

My reply to this email was:

"Go 'rough' yourselves."

Perhaps we can all do the same.

[Beeeej]

Presumably, parents don't bring their children to movies that contain foul language if they don't want their children to hear it.  Similarly, vice presidents in Day Hall don't normally have children in their offices when they curse out a computer.  A hockey game is still a family event.

I use profanity all the time, I just don't do it in hockey games.  And I think that the inability to enjoy a hockey game - to chant, sing, or shout in support of your team - without using profanity is a pretty sad failure of imagination.  In any event, you've been warned, so it's not like you can say you didn't know.

That having been said, I do think that Coach Schafer should be held to the same standard, and I hear him curse loudly from the bench on a regular basis.  He should be the example, not the exception.

[Trotsky]

[quote Beeeej]I hear him curse loudly from the bench on a regular basis[/quote]Canadians recognize a different set of swear words.

[Jordan 04]

Fire Andy.

Well hopefully Andy won't make the band stop playing it, but either way, it would seem fairly easy for the Faithful to simply sing the entire song a capella.

Fire Andy.

Nothing in that letter indicates they won't be permitted to play Gonna Fly Now.

Fire Andy.

[Josh '99]

[quote Beeeej]That having been said, I do think that Coach Schafer should be held to the same standard, and I hear him curse loudly from the bench on a regular basis.  He should be the example, not the exception.[/quote]I thought he was always yelling about some sort of seafaring vessel on which animals of the species equus caballus are transported.

[Lauren '06]

Um, was the band appraised of this "condition" before the email went out?  Did they agree?  And, as Jordan brought up, what exactly is to keep the entire student section from singing it (other than it falling apart from tempo problems)?

[Robb]

The band doesn't have to agree - they play at the pleasure of the Athletic Department, so they will do what the AD says.

[Give My Regards]

[quote amerks127]Furthermore, the band will not be permitted to play "Gary Glitter" at Cornell men's ice hockey games if students continue to chant a profane version of "Rough 'em up, rough 'em up, go CU."[/quote]

Note that the fact that the artist is a convicted pedophile doesn't bother anybody. ::rolleyes::

[Lauren '06]

[quote Robb]The band doesn't have to agree - they play at the pleasure of the Athletic Department, so they will do what the AD says.[/quote]
Not agreeing might carry consequences, but that doesn't mean they have to agree.  I'm more curious if they were contacted beforehand that this condition was made.

[KeithK]

[quote Give My Regards][quote amerks127]Furthermore, the band will not be permitted to play "Gary Glitter" at Cornell men's ice hockey games if students continue to chant a profane version of "Rough 'em up, rough 'em up, go CU."[/quote]

Note that the fact that the artist is a convicted pedophile doesn't bother anybody. ::rolleyes::[/quote]
Not at all.  Why should it?

[Tom Tone]

This sounds like another one of Matt Coats' (everyone's favorite douchetard) plans to purify Lynah.  At the games after break, he posted signs at every entrance stating:

Profanity
=
Ejection

as well as the disclaimer on the back of the ticket. Apparently, athletics hasn't quite discovered how to do landscape printing as of 2009.  

If they want to get rid of the word fuck, whatever. But they shouldn't use the band as leverage against the rest of the fans.

Ruck 'em up, ruck 'em up, Go CU

[fatchance72]

The band was informed of this situation the same time everyone else was.

If athletics decides that we have to stop playing Gary Glitter, we don't really have a choice. Athletics provides us with tickets to every game (hockey, basketball, lacrosse, etc.) and allows us time to play too. The band has little to no bargaining power when it comes to something like this.

The only real way to save the tradition of playing this song, is for people not to say fuck and/or athletics dropping the threat of banning it.