there is an up-side...

When college is no longer any more fun than regular re-education camp, will anyone go?

one in a series of “ridiculous, disturbing and offensive” incidents, some of them alcohol-fueled, that [Tom Slabaugh, Band Director] says he witnessed in his year with the Cal Aggies, “hostile work environment,” Slabaugh is on stress leave…

here are a few of the horrifying violations, “some of them alcohol-fueled.” [

-- on last year’s road trip to the football game with Portland State, a trumpet player yelled “naked van!” and everybody in the vehicle - men and women alike - stripped to their underwear.
[I b’leive this qualifies as a NAKED FAIL e~C]

-- a sousaphone player and a clarinetist wrote “I BOOBS” in masking tape on the van’s window [what?  no *heart*?!??? e~C]

-- four drunken band members were caught urinating in a dormitory elevator, and at band picnic day, four others took their uniform pants down and simulated the incident for a photographer

-- At Christmas, he received a card signed by trombone players with a picture of Santa Claus. “I saw you masturbating,” the message read.

-- From the start, Slabaugh found rehearsals disrupted by “impolite talking, inappropriate and obscene gestures, dropping of pants and women removing their shirts,” he wrote. He said he couldn’t get the band to shape up because students ignored his admonitions.

-- When Slabaugh tried to get the band to behave, he said he faced a barrage of obscene insults and gestures - even a lewd Christmas card from the trombone section.

-- “We are adults and you need to respect that,” [pause for uproarious laughter] a trumpeter e-mailed him. “You owe the band an apology for your attitude since the beginning of your employment here.”

“Slob-aww”?!?  Sounds like they spotted a weakling and ran right over the top of him.  College kids?!?  Shocking.

[This one time at band camp.....  It’s not a meme for no reason]