Columbia University Marching Band - Revision history

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‎History

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Update to include band dissolution

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 In [[2011]], the Band was performed during a marriage proposal on College Walk. It was as adorable as you'd expect.<ref>[http://bwog.com/2011/04/29/storybook-romances-in-london-and-morningside-heights/ "Storybook Romance in London—and Morningside Heights], Bwog 4/29/11</ref> Later that year, they played at an exclusive party for LeBron James. But they also brought their unique brand of humor to the masses, performing for [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC84FCECD36EBBEDF Occupy Wall Street performance]</ref>
-In September [[2020]], over a few short weeks, the CUMB suffered what appeared to be a fatal publicity blow. After the first anonymous confession, a slew of submissions on the Facebook page Columbia Confessions accused the band of promoting stealing, sexual misconduct, binge drinking, and other storied sins. This resulted in the band ultimately announcing its dissolution.
+In September [[2020]], over a few short weeks, the CUMB suffered what appeared to be a fatal publicity blow. After the first anonymous confession, a slew of submissions on the Facebook page [[Columbia Confessions]] accused the band of promoting stealing, sexual misconduct, binge drinking, and other storied sins. This resulted in the band ultimately announcing its dissolution.
 == Slogans ==

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 *In December [[2012]], one of CUMB's Orgo Night posters featured a pun on "Gaza Strip", i.e. "Everyone Wants a Piece"<ref>http://www.wikicu.com/File:Gaza_strip.jpg</ref>. This provoked a scolding from Kevin Shollenberger via a student-wide email. There were lots of Bwog comments about it, some against the band, most in favor of the band<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/12/13/administrators-scold-the-band/</ref>. Some students protested Orgo Night, where the band made fun of the protesters and Shollenberger.
 *After Butler Library Administrator Ann Thornton banned CUMB from performing in 209 in 2016, using extremely facile arguments such as "it bothers the students who work in that room" and "safety issues," (despite no student in 50 years being in Butler 209 for anything except Orgo Night during a single hour period on one night in the entire semester) CUMB acquiesced and performed directly outside the front doors of Butler. They hoped internal alumni pressure and their own forms of protest would eventually come to bear on Thornton and convince her that her machinations were wrong. Of course, no administrator thought about having 100s of students outside in the extreme cold (during Fall) instead of inside. And shockingly, the noise outside the front of the library actually traveled to more rooms within Butler than it would have if CUMB performed inside 209. Big. Surprise. In Fall of 2017, fed up with the intractability of the university, CUMB organized a covert operation to hide instruments throughout 209 and lead an impromptu and against-the-rules performance back in their ancestral homeland. The response of the university is still yet to have come down, although rumors of suppressed involvement of CUMB with activities such as Days on Campus have filtered down.
 == See also ==

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−	'''Columbia University Marching Band''' (CUMB), also known as ''The Cleverest Band the World (tm)'' was formed in [[1904]] and is one of the oldest student groups on campus, and the perpetrator of one of Columbia's only traditions, [[Orgo Night]]. During games, they tend to please the crowd by playing songs and [[Marching Band Chants\|cheers]]. During halftime, when everyone is attentively engaged, they perform the [http://cumb.tumblr.com/archive witty scripts] that they write. They also like to make [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18ADAA834D9EBD29 ridiculous Youtube videos] and [[#Controversies\|get into trouble]].	+	'''Columbia University Marching Band''' (CUMB), also known as ''The Cleverest Band the World (tm)'' was formed in [[1904]] and was one of the oldest student groups on campus, and the perpetrator of one of Columbia's only traditions, [[Orgo Night]]. During games, they tend to please the crowd by playing songs and [[Marching Band Chants\|cheers]]. During halftime, when everyone is attentively engaged, they perform the [http://cumb.tumblr.com/archive witty scripts] that they write. They also like to make [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18ADAA834D9EBD29 ridiculous Youtube videos] and [[#Controversies\|get into trouble]].

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	In [[2011]], the Band was performed during a marriage proposal on College Walk. It was as adorable as you'd expect.<ref>[http://bwog.com/2011/04/29/storybook-romances-in-london-and-morningside-heights/ "Storybook Romance in London—and Morningside Heights], Bwog 4/29/11</ref> Later that year, they played at an exclusive party for LeBron James. But they also brought their unique brand of humor to the masses, performing for [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC84FCECD36EBBEDF Occupy Wall Street performance]</ref>		In [[2011]], the Band was performed during a marriage proposal on College Walk. It was as adorable as you'd expect.<ref>[http://bwog.com/2011/04/29/storybook-romances-in-london-and-morningside-heights/ "Storybook Romance in London—and Morningside Heights], Bwog 4/29/11</ref> Later that year, they played at an exclusive party for LeBron James. But they also brought their unique brand of humor to the masses, performing for [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC84FCECD36EBBEDF Occupy Wall Street performance]</ref>
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		+	In September [[2020]], over a few short weeks, the CUMB suffered what appeared to be a fatal publicity blow. After the first anonymous confession, a slew of submissions on the Facebook page Columbia Confessions accused the band of promoting stealing, sexual misconduct, binge drinking, and other storied sins. This resulted in the band ultimately announcing its dissolution.

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 *After being allowed to play at Fordham in [[2012]] following their ten-year ban, the band made posters referencing the death of Christians at the hands of lions in the Bible. For this they were banned again for an unspecified period of time.
 *In December [[2012]], one of CUMB's Orgo Night posters featured a pun on "Gaza Strip", i.e. "Everyone Wants a Piece"<ref>http://www.wikicu.com/File:Gaza_strip.jpg</ref>. This provoked a scolding from Kevin Shollenberger via a student-wide email. There were lots of Bwog comments about it, some against the band, most in favor of the band<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/12/13/administrators-scold-the-band/</ref>. Some students protested Orgo Night, where the band made fun of the protesters and Shollenberger.
 == See also ==

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 *During a game against [[Fordham University]] in 2002, soon after the Catholic church was rocked by disclosures about pedophile priests, the band claimed that Fordham tuition was "going down like an altar boy" in a joke improvised minutes before the start of the pre-game show. In the ensuing media frenzy, band Poet Laureate Andy Hao was featured on MSNBC's Phil Donahue Show in a debate with Catholic League President William Donohue.  The ''[[New York Times]]'' profiled the CUMB. Columbia University President [[Lee Bollinger]] ended the controversy in one of his first official acts as University President when he apologized to Fordham president, the Reverend Joseph O'Hare. They were banned from playing at Fordham for ten years.
 *In [[2011]], [[Athletics]] administrators banned the band from performing at the final football game of the season, following an incident in which the "banned" sang a modified rendition of [[School songs#Roar, Lion, Roar|Roar, Lion, Roar]] with the lyrics "We always lose" during the football team's ninth straight defeat of the season. Two days later, the ban was reversed.<ref>Amusingly, this led to an absolute torrent of news coverage: [http://espn.go.com/new-york/ncf/story/_/id/7246291/columbia-lions-band-banned-home-football-finale ESPN]; [http://deadspin.com/5860382/columbia-bans-marching-band-from-0+9-football-teams-finale-because-the-band-made-fun-of-the-team DeadSpin]; [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/11/16/athletics-bans-marching-band-football-finale Spec]; [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/sports/ncaafootball/columbia-band-banned-after-changing-lyrics-of-fight-song.html New York Times]; [http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/columbia-band-taunts-its-own-team-and-gets-banned-from-the-home-finale?urn=ncaaf,wp10060 Rivals.com (Yahoo!)]; [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/columbia-band-banned-from-football-finale-after-mocking-its-own-0-9-team.html Bloomberg]; [http://boston.barstoolsports.com/m/sports-page/columbia-band-banned-from-last-game-of-the-season-for-hurting-the-winless-football-teams-feelings/ Boston Barstool Sports]; [http://ftrsports.com/columbia-band-banned-for-making-fun-of-football-team/ FTR Sports]; [http://larrybrownsports.com/college-football/columbia-band-banned-mocking-team/99471 Larry Brown Sports]; [http://www.safetysign.com/blog/?p=1132 SafetySign.com]; [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/columbia_marchi.php Village Voice]; [http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/college-football/columbia-s-irreverent-band-banned-1.3330022 Newsday]; [http://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/general-college-football/37610-columbia-band-banned-final-home-game.html Hawkeye Nation]; [http://espn.go.com/new-york/ncf/story/_/id/7250019/columbia-university-lions-reverses-one-game-ban-band ESPN]; [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062933/Marching-band-0-9-Columbia-University-football-team-banned-final-game-changed-fight-song-lyrics.html Daily Mail (UK)]; [http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-11-17/columbia-bans-its-own-band-from-playing-in-season-finale SportingNews (AOL)]; [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/11/columbias-band-was-mean-to-the-football-team.html New York Magazine]; [http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142497422/marching-band-banned-from-final-football-game NPR]; [http://observer.com/2011/11/columbia-marching-band-unbanned-after-prank/ New York Observer]; [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/columbia_bans_band_from_final_home_hIaVkDsEOjtn5TnRmccrYO New York Post]; [http://deadspin.com/5860887/that-mean-columbia-marching-band-has-been-un+banned-from-performing-at-the-0+9-football-teams-last-game DeadSpin]; [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/columbia-marching-band-sidelined-mocking-struggling-team-article-1.979615 New York Daily News]; [http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/18/columbia_fight_song_parody_gets_marching_band_a_brief_ban_.html Slate]</ref>
-*After being allowed to play at Fordham in 2012 following their ten-year ban, the band made posters referencing the death of Christians at the hands of lions in the Bible. For this they were banned again for an unspecified period of time.
+*After being allowed to play at Fordham in [[2012]] following their ten-year ban, the band made posters referencing the death of Christians at the hands of lions in the Bible. For this they were banned again for an unspecified period of time.
 *In December [[2012]], one of CUMB's Orgo Night posters featured a pun on "Gaza Strip", i.e. "Everyone Wants a Piece"<ref>http://www.wikicu.com/File:Gaza_strip.jpg</ref>. This provoked a scolding from Kevin Shollenberger via a student-wide email. There were lots of Bwog comments about it, some against the band, most in favor of the band<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/12/13/administrators-scold-the-band/</ref>. Some students protested Orgo Night, where the band made fun of the protesters and Shollenberger.

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 *In [[1990]], the band received a bomb threat over its symbolic formation of a burning American Flag accompanied by The Doors' "Light My Fire".  This performance happened shortly after a controversial United States Supreme Court ruling that actual flag burnings are legal.
 *In [[1992]], at the Halloween show, the band performed in costume or drag, including one member dressed as Jesus, with cross. This was also the homecoming game. Two alumni took the field and attempted to charge Jesus, but were thwarted by drummers clad in snare drums. Quoth the alumni: "Don't you know that's fucking sacrilegious?!?"
-*In 1992, at the [[Yale]] Bowl the band pantomimed the consummation of a same-sex marriage on the field, while the couple was held aloft on a CAVA stretcher while the band did the hora and played Have Nagila. The occasion was Youth Day and hundreds of local children from community groups were in attendance. The first words of the halftime show: "We swear, we didn't know it was youth day."
+*In 1992, at the [[Yale]] Bowl the band pantomimed the consummation of a same-sex marriage on the field, while the couple was held aloft on a CAVA stretcher while the band did the hora and played Hava Nagila. The occasion was Youth Day and hundreds of local children from community groups were in attendance. The first words of the halftime show: "We swear, we didn't know it was youth day."
 *In [[1993]], the band drew parallels between the Holocaust and policies for management of [[New York City]]'s homeless population proposed by newly-elected mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The Anti-Defamation League demanded an apology.
 *In 1993, at [[Princeton]], the band recreated the Magic Bullet Theory as put forth by the Warren Commission on the John F. Kennedy assassination, complete with band members as scattering skull fragments.
 *Not really a controversy, but on October 7, [[1994]] the Marching Band [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s-N4ikDds showed up] outside of David Letterman's ''Late Show with David Letterman''. They were soon invited for an impromptu performance.
 *In [[1998]], at the Yale Bowl, the band performed a show featuring a homosexual, pot-smoking Jesus Christ in a homage to the Terrence McNally play ''Corpus Christi''. Angry Yale fans demanded their money back.
-*During a game against [[Fordham University]] in 2002, soon after the Catholic church was rocked by disclosures about pedophile priests, the band claimed that Fordham tuition was "going down like an altar boy" in a joke improvised minutes before the start of the pre-game show. In the ensuing media frenzy, band Poet Laureate Andy Hao was featured on MSNBC's Phil Donahue Show in a debate with Catholic League President William Donohue.  The ''[[New York Times]]'' profiled the CUMB. Columbia University President [[Lee Bollinger]] ended the controversy in one of his first official acts as University President when he apologized to Fordham president, the Reverend Joseph O'Hare.
+*During a game against [[Fordham University]] in 2002, soon after the Catholic church was rocked by disclosures about pedophile priests, the band claimed that Fordham tuition was "going down like an altar boy" in a joke improvised minutes before the start of the pre-game show. In the ensuing media frenzy, band Poet Laureate Andy Hao was featured on MSNBC's Phil Donahue Show in a debate with Catholic League President William Donohue.  The ''[[New York Times]]'' profiled the CUMB. Columbia University President [[Lee Bollinger]] ended the controversy in one of his first official acts as University President when he apologized to Fordham president, the Reverend Joseph O'Hare. They were banned from playing at Fordham for ten years.
 *In [[2011]], [[Athletics]] administrators banned the band from performing at the final football game of the season, following an incident in which the "banned" sang a modified rendition of [[School songs#Roar, Lion, Roar|Roar, Lion, Roar]] with the lyrics "We always lose" during the football team's ninth straight defeat of the season. Two days later, the ban was reversed.<ref>Amusingly, this led to an absolute torrent of news coverage: [http://espn.go.com/new-york/ncf/story/_/id/7246291/columbia-lions-band-banned-home-football-finale ESPN]; [http://deadspin.com/5860382/columbia-bans-marching-band-from-0+9-football-teams-finale-because-the-band-made-fun-of-the-team DeadSpin]; [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/11/16/athletics-bans-marching-band-football-finale Spec]; [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/sports/ncaafootball/columbia-band-banned-after-changing-lyrics-of-fight-song.html New York Times]; [http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/columbia-band-taunts-its-own-team-and-gets-banned-from-the-home-finale?urn=ncaaf,wp10060 Rivals.com (Yahoo!)]; [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/columbia-band-banned-from-football-finale-after-mocking-its-own-0-9-team.html Bloomberg]; [http://boston.barstoolsports.com/m/sports-page/columbia-band-banned-from-last-game-of-the-season-for-hurting-the-winless-football-teams-feelings/ Boston Barstool Sports]; [http://ftrsports.com/columbia-band-banned-for-making-fun-of-football-team/ FTR Sports]; [http://larrybrownsports.com/college-football/columbia-band-banned-mocking-team/99471 Larry Brown Sports]; [http://www.safetysign.com/blog/?p=1132 SafetySign.com]; [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/columbia_marchi.php Village Voice]; [http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/college-football/columbia-s-irreverent-band-banned-1.3330022 Newsday]; [http://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/general-college-football/37610-columbia-band-banned-final-home-game.html Hawkeye Nation]; [http://espn.go.com/new-york/ncf/story/_/id/7250019/columbia-university-lions-reverses-one-game-ban-band ESPN]; [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062933/Marching-band-0-9-Columbia-University-football-team-banned-final-game-changed-fight-song-lyrics.html Daily Mail (UK)]; [http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-11-17/columbia-bans-its-own-band-from-playing-in-season-finale SportingNews (AOL)]; [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/11/columbias-band-was-mean-to-the-football-team.html New York Magazine]; [http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142497422/marching-band-banned-from-final-football-game NPR]; [http://observer.com/2011/11/columbia-marching-band-unbanned-after-prank/ New York Observer]; [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/columbia_bans_band_from_final_home_hIaVkDsEOjtn5TnRmccrYO New York Post]; [http://deadspin.com/5860887/that-mean-columbia-marching-band-has-been-un+banned-from-performing-at-the-0+9-football-teams-last-game DeadSpin]; [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/columbia-marching-band-sidelined-mocking-struggling-team-article-1.979615 New York Daily News]; [http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/18/columbia_fight_song_parody_gets_marching_band_a_brief_ban_.html Slate]</ref>
 *In December [[2012]], one of CUMB's Orgo Night posters featured a pun on "Gaza Strip", i.e. "Everyone Wants a Piece"<ref>http://www.wikicu.com/File:Gaza_strip.jpg</ref>. This provoked a scolding from Kevin Shollenberger via a student-wide email. There were lots of Bwog comments about it, some against the band, most in favor of the band<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/12/13/administrators-scold-the-band/</ref>. Some students protested Orgo Night, where the band made fun of the protesters and Shollenberger.