A STORY in the Nov. 10 Chronicle of Higher Education, out this week, links the recent problems of the University of Wisconsin marching band with those of the marching band at Stanford University in California.
The Chronicle notes: “Stanford’s band was not the only one to land in hot water this semester. The University of Wisconsin punished its marching band last month for a head-shaving incident and ‘highly sexualized banter’ on a road trip.”
This strikes me as highly unfair to the Stanford band. Because while the UW band did indeed get its hand slapped by Chancellor John Wiley for unruly behavior, the Stanford band is truly in a class of its own.