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Sex, Scandal and the Marching Band: Inside the New Rules at Ohio State
At the crossroads of big-time athletics, the fight for sexual safety and modern college life with the Best Damn Band in the Land
By John B. Thompson January 7, 2016
Seven hours before kickoff, Nate MacMaster sits on a folding chair in the foyer of the Ohio State University Marching Band Center. The complex forms part of Ohio Stadium's outer shell, a monument to marketing ambition that expanded seating capacity from 66,000 to 105,000 in 2001. MacMaster, the band's drum major responsible for leading the group through its drills, is stripped to a T-shirt, breeches rolled up to his thigh, unwinding an Ace bandage down the length of his shin. "Stress fractures," he explains. "You get them from strutting, especially in the practices before tryouts. Having long legs makes it worse — puts more stress on your body. But the strut wins the tryout. Anyone can twirl the baton or do tricks, but it takes a man to strut."
Cory Faist emerges half-ready from the sousaphone storage room, clad in a jacket and trousers a bruised navy so dark it looks black. A bulge above one shoe, where a brace encases an ankle he sprained during summer tryouts, breaks the otherwise clean lines of his uniform. He pulls back the sweat shield in his marching band cap to reveal two photographs. "These are my grandfathers," he says. "My mom's dad died before my first concert in middle school, back when I was still playing trumpet. He was a lifelong Buckeye fan. Before he died, I promised him I would be in the Ohio State marching band. I just remember he smiled and said, 'Of course you will.'" Faist blinks away a tear from his blue eyes. "It means everything. Especially today."
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Sex, Scandal and the Marching Band: Inside the New Rules at Ohio State
At the crossroads of big-time athletics, the fight for sexual safety and modern college life with the Best Damn Band in the Land
By John B. Thompson January 7, 2016
Seven hours before kickoff, Nate MacMaster sits on a folding chair in the foyer of the Ohio State University Marching Band Center. The complex forms part of Ohio Stadium's outer shell, a monument to marketing ambition that expanded seating capacity from 66,000 to 105,000 in 2001. MacMaster, the band's drum major responsible for leading the group through its drills, is stripped to a T-shirt, breeches rolled up to his thigh, unwinding an Ace bandage down the length of his shin. "Stress fractures," he explains. "You get them from strutting, especially in the practices before tryouts. Having long legs makes it worse — puts more stress on your body. But the strut wins the tryout. Anyone can twirl the baton or do tricks, but it takes a man to strut."
Cory Faist emerges half-ready from the sousaphone storage room, clad in a jacket and trousers a bruised navy so dark it looks black. A bulge above one shoe, where a brace encases an ankle he sprained during summer tryouts, breaks the otherwise clean lines of his uniform. He pulls back the sweat shield in his marching band cap to reveal two photographs. "These are my grandfathers," he says. "My mom's dad died before my first concert in middle school, back when I was still playing trumpet. He was a lifelong Buckeye fan. Before he died, I promised him I would be in the Ohio State marching band. I just remember he smiled and said, 'Of course you will.'" Faist blinks away a tear from his blue eyes. "It means everything. Especially today."
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BayBuck
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Surprised this wasn't posted yet... Christopher Hoch named (permanent) director of TBDBITL, also faculty status, has been at OSU since 2012:
https://news.osu.edu/news/2016/02/2...or-of-ohio-state-marching-and-athletic-bands/
https://news.osu.edu/news/2016/02/2...or-of-ohio-state-marching-and-athletic-bands/
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ScriptOhio
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State court throws out Jon Waters defamation suit against Ohio State
The Ohio Court of Claims on Tuesday ruled that Ohio State University did not defame former marching-band director Jonathan Waters when it fired him in July 2014 for failing to adequately address a "sexualized culture" in the nationally known band program.
The decision dismisses Waters' defamation suit but it doesn't end his legal actions against the university. A separate lawsuit, alleging that he didn't receive due process in his firing and suffered gender discrimination, remains in federal court.
Entire article: http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...rs_lawsuit_against_Ohio_State_thrown_out.html
The Ohio Court of Claims on Tuesday ruled that Ohio State University did not defame former marching-band director Jonathan Waters when it fired him in July 2014 for failing to adequately address a "sexualized culture" in the nationally known band program.
The decision dismisses Waters' defamation suit but it doesn't end his legal actions against the university. A separate lawsuit, alleging that he didn't receive due process in his firing and suffered gender discrimination, remains in federal court.
Entire article: http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...rs_lawsuit_against_Ohio_State_thrown_out.html
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ScriptOhio
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VIDEO: EXPERIENCE TBDBITL'S RAMP ENTRANCE TO OHIO STADIUM IN 360 DEGREES (OF AMAZING
Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...nce-to-ohio-stadium-in-360-degrees-of-amazing
Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...nce-to-ohio-stadium-in-360-degrees-of-amazing
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ScriptOhio
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A RUNDOWN OF NON-BAND MEMBERS TO DOT THE 'I' IN SCRIPT OHIO
Not just anyone can dot the "i" in one of the greatest traditions in college football, Script Ohio.
So when news broke Monday morning that Ohio State planned to honor former football coach Earle Bruce with a chance to do so, it became a pretty big deal.
“We chose Earle Bruce to be an honorary i-dotter because of his amazing work with the football team and his love for the band,” fourth-year Ohio State student and current sousaphone player Cy Aalaei said in a press release. “He demonstrated his excellent leadership and commitment to our team, but the moment he felt like a true Buckeye, as he fondly recalled with us, was when he first heard the band as a freshman at Ohio State.”
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Only 13 other times in what is now the band's 80th season of performing Script Ohio at Buckeye football games has someone other than a fourth- or fifth-year sousaphone player dotted the "i." Bruce is set to be the 14th.
The other guest "i" dotters:
See entire list of other "guest" i-dotters: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-non-band-members-to-dot-the-i-in-script-ohio
Not just anyone can dot the "i" in one of the greatest traditions in college football, Script Ohio.
So when news broke Monday morning that Ohio State planned to honor former football coach Earle Bruce with a chance to do so, it became a pretty big deal.
“We chose Earle Bruce to be an honorary i-dotter because of his amazing work with the football team and his love for the band,” fourth-year Ohio State student and current sousaphone player Cy Aalaei said in a press release. “He demonstrated his excellent leadership and commitment to our team, but the moment he felt like a true Buckeye, as he fondly recalled with us, was when he first heard the band as a freshman at Ohio State.”
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Only 13 other times in what is now the band's 80th season of performing Script Ohio at Buckeye football games has someone other than a fourth- or fifth-year sousaphone player dotted the "i." Bruce is set to be the 14th.
The other guest "i" dotters:
See entire list of other "guest" i-dotters: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-non-band-members-to-dot-the-i-in-script-ohio
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