Columbia University Marching Band to Dissolve

[jon-nyc]

[LuFins Dad]

Those trombone players are very racist.

How much do you want to bet there will be some new inclusive band started next week.

[Copper]

Idiots

[LuFins Dad]

It looks like there were some recent incidents, though, and the band may have been facing formal punishments. This may be an attempt at forestalling those punishments.

[jon-nyc]

How beautiful would it be if this were satire?

It would restore my faith in youth.

[89th]

Not the CUMB!

I also find the "unanimously and enthusiastically" part to be a little hard to believe.

[xenon]

The letter reads a bit cheeky.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in Columbia University Marching Band to Dissolve:

Not the CUMB!

I also find the "unanimously and enthusiastically" part to be a little hard to believe.

You notice that only 20 people attended...

[Axtremus]

A marching band is not essential to getting a college education. Better put the students’ time and the school’s resources to better use.

[LuFins Dad]

@Axtremus said in Columbia University Marching Band to Dissolve:

A marching band is not essential to getting a college education. Better put the students’ time and the school’s resources to better use.

Physics Labs are not essential to a college education. Better to put the student’s time and the school’s resources to better use.

Marching Band is a fairly important component of a Music Ed major’s curriculum.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Axtremus said in Columbia University Marching Band to Dissolve:

A marching band is not essential to getting a college education. Better put the students’ time and the school’s resources to better use.

Are social skills essential to not sounding like an internet douche?

[Rainman]

Keep on keeping on: destroying. Tear down the establishment, rewrite history.
There will be massive pushback in time, or not.
And if not, well, that's it.
I really hate to be the generation that historians look back upon, and praise us for the New United States, where freedoms are looked at as outdated and somehow obsolete, and all subjects are void of the destructive white race all the way back to what's convenient the Enlightenment.

Marching Band? Of course that is useless and meaningless. ATTA bOY, AX! It's culture and tradition, and we can't have that. /sarc of course.

[Axtremus]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Columbia University Marching Band to Dissolve:

@Axtremus said in Columbia University Marching Band to Dissolve:

A marching band is not essential to getting a college education. Better put the students’ time and the school’s resources to better use.

Are social skills essential to not sounding like an internet douche?

Not necessarily. One can easily not sound like an Internet douche just by not posting anything on the Internet. That requires no social skill whatsoever.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Axtremus said in Columbia University Marching Band to Dissolve:

One can easily not sound like an Internet douche just by not posting anything on the Internet.

I don't believe you. Prove it to me.

[Loki]

The band failed to keep up with the context of their times. A long history of hi-jinx, and definitely not afraid of consequences, apparently took a step too far and went out on its own terms.