
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 26, 1993                   TAG: 9309060250
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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AT UVA

SO Hokies and Elvis fans need no longer take vials of smelling salts with them when they attend football games at Mr. Jefferson's University.

The outlaw UVa pep band has been apprehended and taken into custody by the thought police.

No longer will the madcap musicians vex and outrage sensitive souls with their frisky, rambunctious pre-game and half-time lampoons.

They have been drummed off the field at Scott Stadium, which will now be as civil and persnickety as a church social for the blue-hair set.

Heaven forbid anybody getting a laugh from such high jinks as band members piling on an Elvis impersonator and proclaiming that The King is finally dead.

It is time, too, for the cheeky 'Hoos to stop offending Virginia Tech's proud alums by recalling Tech's "cow college" image of bygone days.

Sigh.

In this age of political correctness on campus, it surely had to come to this: pepless propriety.

Yet one still pines sometimes for the good old days.

Not, of course, that we'd approve of panty raids or the like. And as for goldfish-swallowing contests - well, we wouldn't want to offend the goldfish.

by CNB