No doubt you've stumbled across reports of the Wisconsin band's naughtiness getting it into trouble. This, of course, begged for some sort of explanation. What heinous acts would get a band, er, banned? Well, the actions on the Michigan road trip...Reports of one band member having his head shaved in a hazing incident and lewd dancing by semi-nude band members...were only a "tipping point" after epic bad behavior dating back to 1999. The charges in full:
Your band ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your band newsletter, University of Wisconsin band dorks. That noise you're hearing are hopless high school band dorks across the country frantically filling out Wisconsin applications.- A female band member told to suck on a sex toy in an apparent hazing incident.
- Women being forced to kiss other women in order to gain access to bus bathrooms.
- Women being forced to draw pornographic pictures for older male band members, recite obscene limericks or stories, and read aloud explicit accounts of their sexual preferences composed for them by others for older male band members.
- The practice of women swapping shirts with males.
- Demeaning and abusive demands for younger band members to run errands and refill beer cups for older members.
- Upperclassmen have been reported to have "taken over" the dorm rooms of freshman women, supplied alcohol and demanded they join in the drinking.
- In 2004, band behavior in a bus led to the driver pulling over and calling for police.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-13-2006 @ 12:02AM
vince said...
how do you get into this school? this place rocks
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10-13-2006 @ 8:49PM
Cliff Pete said...
Wow...somebody call the National Guard. I wish my band would have been like this.
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10-15-2006 @ 10:40PM
Dean A. Krause said...
Students should be constantly reminded they represent the "University of Wisconsin" and have a social gift. The world is full of "Drunken Sorry People" who have pissed their lives away on bad behavior and excessive alcohol. Many wasted individuals who have acted badly and spent their public nuisance days in jail or on social expulsion live to regret many missed opportunities.
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10-15-2006 @ 11:05PM
Rick Enos said...
My college band was like that, but that was in 70's when we could get away with it. I remember mooning the cheerleaders and some nuns. I am sure we would get on "double secret probation" if we did that today!
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10-16-2006 @ 3:33AM
billy said...
Yeah, the band knows how to party. I'm not even in it and i go to their house parties anyway (i got friends in the band). Vince, if you can manage a 25 or higher on your ACT, you'll stand a good chance at getting into the Playboy #1 party school in the nation.
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10-16-2006 @ 2:40PM
rob said...
Even though it sounds fun and crazy, the Band represents UW and nothing to be proud of. Big Ten bands are usually very traditional and generally in the Elite Groups.........save the nonsense for Stanford (they can't play a tune and look pretty classless all in The SAME STEP, and funny- NOT!)
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10-16-2006 @ 6:45PM
Michelle said...
I am not a Badger fan, but I have been to their games as a fan of an opposing team. Not only is their band an embarassment but so is their student section. The band encourages these students to yell cheers filled with profanity. They are unsportmanslike, and if I was an alumnus of UW, I would be writing letters and removing my support. It is possible to still have fun and cheer on your team without embarassing yourself or your school. There can be integrity in college sports, but it has to come from everyone involved... players, coaches and the fans. Wisconsin does not display integrity.
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10-16-2006 @ 7:39PM
jbomb442 said...
yea,but can they play "smoke on the water???"
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10-16-2006 @ 8:08PM
Randy said...
Hey michelle, why dont you stop being such a prude. First of all, the band doesnt encourage us to yell profanity, we do that on our own. Don't give the band credit for something they dont deserve. Second, I am sick of you and people like you for smearing the band just because 6-15 people out of 300 were showing bad behavior. BTW, if you ask any alum, i guarantee they will tell you that they love the wisconsin band and always have loved it. I think it is pretty obvious you are not a badger fan, as you are so quick to trash it. Let me guess, a fan of Goldy? Got your butts wooped this weekend. Is this your retaliation, Posting your outrage on AOL?!
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10-16-2006 @ 8:29PM
Joan said...
If this is the way people (supposedly adults, at least that's what they say) in Wisconsin behave, I am sure glad I left there when I did. Things have been going on at the Universities that make the rest of us not want to let other people know where we came from.
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10-16-2006 @ 9:58PM
Bob said...
I'm a Wisconsin Badger fan and think the band on the field is one of the best. I hadn't heard of these problems until now, and if true, I am quite embarrassed for their behavior. It gives the whole state a bad name.
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10-17-2006 @ 12:26AM
bill said...
Pretty typical behavior for college age kids no matter what school they go to. The only reason for it being shameful and unsportsmanlike is because they keep getting caught. Use your head for something other than a cheese hat and figure out a way to stay out of trouble while still having half naked fun.
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10-17-2006 @ 12:50AM
marc said...
As an alum of another Big 10 school, I'll never forget attending a game at Camp Randall and having garbage thrown at me when I cheered for my team. Wisconsin fans -- from the band to the cheerleaders to the alums and especially the students -- were totally classless. That was 25 years ago. Guess things never change. How sad.
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10-17-2006 @ 6:46PM
billy said...
this topic is the band itself, and not the student section. The haters from the other Big Ten schools can go rip on wisconsin in another forum. Even if we did just beat minnesota 48-12. The student section is independent of the band as the band is independent of the football team. The band and football team are striving to be class acts (with the exception of a few, of course), but the student section doesn't care if they appear to be classy or not, because they're just there to see their team win, and when there's a mob of 13,000+ (drunk) college kids REALLY pulling for their team to win, things can get ugly. It's not like it just happens in Wisconsin; it happens everywhere else, except maybe at Brigham Young University.
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10-19-2006 @ 3:39PM
Dan said...
Ummm.....
all of this is pretty funny...
not classless...just funny :)
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