Case II: Athletic favoritism The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, October 15, 1980-Page 9 Catchy 'Go Blue'melody was invented rih ere t The veteran players on the Michigan hockey team will tell you that it only happens once in a lifetime, and that anybody can recover from such a beating. So what if you get all the hair on your body shaved off? After all, masculinity only counts in the chromosomes. The hazing of a freshman Wolverine hockey player who was about to embark on a dream voyage on the Yost Arena ice, goes far beyond the act of hazing itself. The jelly and egg stains, the shaved hair, the involuntary drunkenness ... you can consider that water under the bridge for now. Call it what you will-disgusting, degrading, Alan FangerU sickening, insane-any adjective of the sort will do. It's all part of that sometimes-familiar process called hazing, whereby one is initiated through a rather tor- turous set of rituals. If he's willing to pass off the events of Sunday as "part of the plan," then we cannot belabor the criticism of his hazing-as unjust. If his primary goal is to play hockey for Michigan, and to play it with the same men who left him naked and shivering in near-freezing temperatures, then he will empty his mind of this horror story and play the same brand of hockey he has always played. Or will he? The body recovers, but the mind doesn't always follow suit. Could he have falshbacks of the in- cident later in the season? Would it be too far-fetched to presuppose the possibility of nightmares? Since I've never gone through a hazing, I'm in no position to forecast any post-hazing implications. But the first-year icer appears to have suffered through a far greater trauma than any of his peers or predecessors. These hockey players, like the football players seven months before them, should consider themselves a lucky group. They took unlimited license to brutalize and terrorize another human being to the brink of death, yet they are likely to come away from the incident legally unscathed. Football players can immerse themselves in the drug market, but they too, have been granted im- munity from legal sanctions. Perhaps we should all join the ranks of Michigan athletics; in that regard, we could sidestep the law and get away with it. You don't accomplish much beyond ego damage if you impose "sanctions" on these people. As a matter of fact, Don Canham would surprise quite a few people if he took any "drastic" action, such as suspen- ding the players. The players apologize and pledge to cease any further rites of fear, some initiation, President Shapiro calls the action "deplorable" and "unacceptable," and the cur- tain is closed on yet another I'm-above-the-law drama at the University. Don Canham is letting it blow by without much more than a few apologies. The residents of the fourth floor of Markley's Reeves House are too fearful of "reper- .cussions" to rush to the defense of their hallmate. Harold Shapiro looks into the television cameras and describes the incident as "not serious." If I were left freezing, stark naked, and helpless for an hour, I might expect a little more from the University's powers-that-be. By BUDDY MOOREHOUSE On any given Friday night or Satur- day afternoon during the football season, high school and college mar- ching bands from coast to coast can be heard cheering their teams on by playing what Michigan fans know as the "Let's Go, Blue!" cheer. Although countless bands throughout the country use the cheer, the thing that many Michigan fans do not know is that the crowd-pleasing ditty was written right on this campus. And just like Michigan's fight song, "The Victors," which was written in 1898 by music student Louis Elbel after watching Michigan beat Chicago 1-0 in a football game, the "Let's Go, Blue!" cheer was also composed by a Michigan music student who was inspired by the Wolverines. "IT WAS WRITTEN in the winter of '75-'76, during hockey season," explains Joe Carl, the tuba player in the Michigan band who wrote the cheer. "We always played little ditties during the time-outs and we found that the tuba's sound really echoes through Yost Arena. We were just fooling around when we came up with the cheer." Former Michigan Marching Band director George Cavender recalled that the words were added after the cheer had been played a few times. "After the tubas played the cheer and hit those last three notes, I put my fist in the air and yelled 'Let's Go, Blue',! " said Cavender. "The crowd caught on to it right away and it spread like wildfire." Although it .Might seem to some Michigan partisans that the cheer has been a part of home football Saturdays since the pre-Schembechler era, the first time the cheer was actually played at a Michigan football game was on November 7, 1976 against Purdue. "I remember it was that game because they announced my name after we played the cheer and I stood up and took a bow," recalls Carl. "It was really wild." CAVENDER HAD a premonition from the start that the cheer was destined to become a classic. "The first time Joe played. it, I sensed im- mediately that it was a hit," said the former band director. "I asked Al Ahronheim, my arranger at the time, to arrange it for the whole marching band. There's never been a cheer like it in the history of football." Carl was not as sure as his teacher that the cheer would become such a success. "I was pretty shocked that it caught on so fast," said Carl, who is currently a band director in South Haven, Mich. "I never had any ilea that it would becomesohbig when I wrote it." The widespread success of the cheer is easy to understand. Any team's nickname or color can be inserted in place of 'Blue', making the cheer easily adaptable to any team who wishes to use it. Among the more prominent teams using Carl's brainchild are the Chicago White Sox, Purdue, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania, in addition to num- erous others. CARL HAS NOT gone. totally unrewarded for his creation. "Albert and I had it copyrighted, so every time it's played on TV, we get a royalty," said Carl. "But we're not in it for the money or anything. We just meant it to be a cheer for Michigan." So the next time that your school spirit is stirred by the chords of "Let's Go, Blue!" emanating from the band, remember that you're cheering to a Michigan original. Wolverine stickers score 4-3 OT triumph By BARB BARKER Sophomore Sara Forrestel's goal one minute into the overtime session gave Michigan's field hockey team a hard-fought 4-3 victory over Albion yesterday at Ferry Field. The Wolverines held a 3-0 lead with two minutes gone in the second half, but then were victimized by a three-goal Albion scoring drive. Forrestel's score, with an assist by sophomore Marty Maugh, enabled the Blue stickers to raise their season record to 7-4 and halt a two-game losing streak. The Michigan offense totally dominated first half play with goals by sophomores Maugh and Wendy Clark. Julie Forrestel scored a third goal off a penalty corner shot two minutes into the second half. The Wolverines, perhaps fatigued by poor weather con- ditions and confident of victory, played a poor second half. Overtime play was characterized by a strong Blue defense, which succeeded in holding.its early-one-p'oint overtime lead. Despite the Michigan win, Albion head coach Charlotte Duff was not the. least bit disappointed in her team's per- formance. "I am really pleased with the game we played," she said. "We really got on our feet with those three goals in the second half. "I think that a team, from a school of our size playing such a good game against a large school like Michigan really says a lot about the potential of our team." Michigan head coach Candy Zientek was relieved by the final outcome of the game. "Well, we finally pulled it off," she said. "I think going into the second half, over-confident of our lead, we underestimated the power of Albion. The problem was mainly a mental one. "I think they showed us that we can never relax no matter how large our lead. I am pleased we were able to come back and win like we did." The stickers will travel to Holland, Mi., today to play Hope College. 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