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Agreed. Thankfully, I’ve not personally come across any of that in a while. (Early on— quite a bit.)

It’s pretty rare to see anyone out and about here in Texas wearing a mask. (Restaurants, movie theaters… wherever.) In fact, people have pretty much back been back to “normal” routines with their activities for quite some time now. (Well over a year or more.) Whether it lasts, who knows? But, unless specifically required, I’d be surprised to see many masks worn in the stadiums at the Texas shows. (Again, who knows? Maybe drum corps crowds will be different.) Especially with the summer we’re in for— on par already to rival 2011. Temps for the next seven days are all 100+.

Easy: entertaining. I couldn’t care less about the sheets. But “entertaining” means something different to each of us. That’s the kicker.

I’m a very happy alumnus! I love hearing the corps come back to form and that’s one helluva book. SUTA!

Sad all around. May he find peace.

Kinda makes you wonder, right?

They’ve left the screenshots up on the joint statement thread, though.

And the wording on that statement is just the worst. (And this is from a guy who generally struggles at wording.)

So, like…they have to be aware that those screenshots are there, right? And how does that jive in any way with their newest statement? I am genuinely at a loss.

That makes sense. I was just thinking along the lines of getting some kind of attention drawn to the situation so all of the hate/harassment could be shut down.

I reported their page and thread.

Yep. Either way you slice it, not great.

That’s exactly what I thought too. At first I was like, come on. But, at this point, I’m not making judgements. But I was surprised (or not?) to see him there.

I had some back and forth with Maddox and a couple others that I deleted. Just felt gross to even converse with them, so I deleted it all.

Well I did see Howdy there early on. He claimed SOA members sodomized him with a broom in the 80’s.

Is there a way to report it to FB or do only members even have the ability to see it?

Don’t forget this little gem: “inappropriate is in the eye of the beholder.” Vomit. That’s where I had to check out.

One prominent SOA alumnus, who was recently inducted into their own HOF in 2021, is on their FB page decrying the “woke crowd” and “belly moaning to DCI.” And continually referring to her as “victim.” (Using quotes around the word.) And telling people they don’t know the facts. As I said before, I hope this is the minority view among their alumni.

I took a quick perusal of the latest FB post from SOS and there’s definitely a cadre of commenters who clearly don’t get it. One even blamed their loss of housing on a “woke mob.” Hopefully the majority of their members and alumni don’t share similar views.

The problem is that the assaults and talent night events occurred at all, not in her not escaping them soon enough, FFS.

Very rarely do I have patients who are happy to hear me say that I need to take out a bad tooth. But it’s my job. Sometimes, there’s just no saving them. I don’t know if DCI is too far gone, yet, (e.g. “non-restorable” in my world) but it definitely has an infection that needs to be cleared. Immediately. I also agree with what others have been saying in regards to having some sort of impartial oversight responsible for protecting member health and safety. (One that also doesn’t lick the boots of the DCI membership.) Each corps should be required to have a compliance officer and some sort of direct chaperoning on the busses and in the gyms. And there should be prescribed penalties for non compliance. None of this double secret probation ########.

So DCI’s probation is just a reiteration of what the corps was supposed to be doing anyway? What am I missing here?

The fact that it took the victim reporting this publicly before DCI and Spirit would reveal their actions on this is incomprehensible and indefensible. Especially considering we’re a couple of months into the audition season. Or perhaps that was their point?

As the phrase goes, a day late and a dollar short. Both them and DCI.