Fuck 'em up, fuck 'em up, BC sucks!http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700212/posts
The loyal fans of the Boston University Terriers hockey team, one of the premier college hockey programs in the United States, have just been given a brutal check into the boards of political correctness. And it sucks.
For those who are not from The Hub, Boston University and Boston College have the sort of rivalry not seen since...The Civil War. Like in the Big Ten, where a Michigan win over Ohio State can cancel out an otherwise dismal season, a Terrier victory over the Eagles, on the ice, brings redemption. This is most important since, in the interest of Title IX compliance, BU has eliminated pretty much every single sport, save for ice hockey, basketball, and sailing.
Similarly, a win by the BC Eagles has the same effect at the other end of Commonwealth Avenue.
BC fans chant "It sucks to BU"; BU fans chant "BC sucks!" The loathing is ubiquitous, as is the chanting. In fact, I was at a BU v. Northeastern game last season and the BU fans managed to get in a few BC sucks chants. BC wasn't even on the ice. BC wasn't even in the building.
But that will change, and it sucks.
Not for the phony First Amendment reasons. No, I don't care about them.
It sucks because it is a harmless tradition, and it has been going on for as long as I have been in Boston--some fifteen years--and now, some pencil neck wants to make a change. If it was a real problem, then it should have been addressed before.
Oh, but that takes balls.
No one is hurt by the chanting. It is mildly amusing, and only slightly offensive. If you don't like it, then leave. After all, you go by choice. Last I checked, a ticket wasn't forced upon you, and no one makes you sit in your seat. They are merely words, not objects that are physically harmful, like batteries. And, just out of curiosity, was my mother the only one that said, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you"?
Next thing you know, these hockey pucks will ban the use of a puck, on the off chance that one might go over the glass and hit someone in the head.
Choose your battles. Grade inflation, bad. Sports, good. Students who can not read and write, bad. Sports fans who have school spirit, good. Stratospheric tuition, bad. Off-color chants, good.
When everything else is sunshine and kittens, talk to me about a chant here and there. Until then, shut the hell up, you.
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as a matter of fact, it *is* forced upon you. at fair BU, all full time students are automatically charged for a "sports pass," at a whopping $90, which you must take steps to have removed from your semester bill should you, like me, not give a damn about college athletics.
except for the columbia/harvard game. which is hilarious enough to keep me laughing for two years running.
Yikes! $90.00. At a school where tuition is more than the per capita income of most nations. That is bullshit.
As for me, I care about college athletics, and pay the tariff to see the Terriers on the ice. I choose to pay, and I don't mind the free exercise of student speech.
The season begins soon.
Go BU!
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