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  1. When I marched in the early 1990's, a 26 year old percussion instructor (caption head) from my corps was in an active relationship with an 18 yr old guard member. The relationship was known to corps leadership and nothing was done. I don't know if they legally COULD do anything, given the age of the member. The corps is highly successful and still active, as is the former instructor. No barriers, apart from "the speech" about separate sleeping for male and female members, were ever established at that time.
  2. This was, indeed, a landmark verdict against the mother of a disturbed 15 year old who murdered four of his classmates with a gun given to him by his awful parents. They evaded law enforcement when they learned of pending charges against them, and now they're up against it. The father will likely try to plea, based on the mother's conviction, however he's not likely to be offered the opportunity by the prosecution. The mother was represented by the same attorney who represented Larry Nasser, BTW. That attorney was THE WORST in court. These parents were directly responsible for this kid having access to a firearm, and that directly led to the shooting. They're 100% responsible and guilty of manslaughter. The jury bought none of the defense's arguments, nor should they have.
  3. If you believe that Pioneer will ever return to the field after being banned from DCI membership due to the Blenski's complete lack of action to safeguard members or to report abusers, then you aren't being honest about what my statement means. They're never coming back. It's a perma-ban by default. You think that Roman Jr. will do ANYTHING different than dear old dad? Excuse me while I try not to guffaw. Unless and until Pioneer is owned and operated by someone other than the Blenski family or any of the old guard there, they are defunct. In case you hadn't noticed, not many dead corps are springing back to life. Neither are there many new corps starting up and being successful. Because, you know, sustainability. Also, I NEVER said, nor did I ever insinuate that member safety is not required for the activity's sustainability. Where the hell you got that from my post, I have no idea. Speaking of rethinking...You need to rethink why you included four corps in your list of losses due to "sustainability," when the overall sustainability of drum corps had zero to do with their demise. It's completely a false equivalence and that's what I was pointing out.
  4. Several highly credentialed individuals have taken this position in the recent past. It changed nothing.
  5. At least four of the corps on this list don't count towards the "sustainability" argument. One was eliminated by utter incompetence from organizational management, and the other three were guilty of allowing horrendous member abuse, with one of those being perma-banned. After the airing of their dirty laundry, Crusaders and Shadow went away because no parent would allow their kid to march there. Being strictly technical, they don't count as casualties of sustainability.
  6. I have so many friends who marched Cadets in the mid-late 1980's-mid 1990's. They're all hurting and any positive information that comes out of Erie is, I'm sure, welcome.
  7. In 1990, Crown held our everyday rehearsals at the Charlotte Parks and Rec Annex off Independence Blvd., across from the old Memorial Stadium, where NightBeat originated. We used a locked storage unit at the annex for instruments and equipment. Thankfully, we were able to move to the on-campus setting at Belmont Abbey College starting in 1991. The Annex was truly awful but it served its purpose, I guess.
  8. Any government grant program (especially related to COVID) will be heavily backlogged, as well as heavily regulated. I currently work with HUD grants for low-income housing projects, so I can attest to this. There was so much fraud associated with COVID relief programs it staggers the mind. Do we know if any other DCI corps applied for COVID relief through this program to help cover COVID-related losses? Seems like a no-brainer, but so does timely non-profit paperwork filing. Also from the sba.gov site: Venue or promoter who received a PPP loan on or after December 27, 2020, will have the SVOG reduced by the PPP loan amount" So, any PPP forgiveness would likely impact the grant amount they would be eligible for through the Shuttered Venue program, if they even applied.
  9. SVOG is a non-starter. Per SBA: "Notice: As of August 20, 2021, SVOG is no longer accepting new applications"
  10. This thread serves as the coda on Howdy's RAMD/DCP presence. Weird guy. I guess we are all weird, somehow or another. But probably not as weird as Howdy was.
  11. Knight came and spoke to the marching members at TLB (Star HQ) in 1993. I remember him being affable and it seemed to me that he was truly into what we were doing. I remember thinking that he sounded pretty much exactly like he did in the '89 Finals vignette where he praised the work ethic of D&BC marching members. I never liked his coaching style or his on-court demeanor but it was a cool moment in my life that I'll never forget, getting a motivational pep talk from Bob Knight.
  12. Whoever filled out the form flat out said that there was Theft/Embezzlement/Diversion/Misuse. Jesus...
  13. Anyone got a video of that Battle of Hastings show BD did back in 1086? I can’t find it on YouTube.
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