The University of Wisconsin at Madison’s marching band has become the second such group at a major university to land on probation this fall. According to today’s Wisconsin State Journal, the band was punished for a head-shaving incident that amounted to hazing, as well as vulgar behavior, lewd dancing, and “highly sexualized banter” on a road trip last month for a football game against the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The behavior, which drew a number of complaints, repeated previous outbreaks of crudity by band members, the newspaper reported.
Stanford University put its band on “indefinite provisional status,” and placed it under the direct control of an associate dean, in response to band members’ role in destroying a $50,000 practice facility (The Chronicle, September 14).
