NOVEMBER 12, 1971
Letters to the Editor
After attending this year's Homecoming game, I feel the Pom-Pon Squad is owed an apology. I feel they are a part of Homecoming just as much as the team, court, or the band members are; yet they were conveniently excluded from the half-time show this year, supposedly because of a misunderstanding.
Personally, I didn't think the half-time show deserved all of the allotted time. The "award winning marching band" wasn't the only thing the spectators wished to see, and it's about time the band directors realize this. There was no need for the squad to be humiliated before the entire audience as they were at Homecoming, and I feel that the least the band could do would be to apologize to them for ruining their Homecoming.
Name Withheld by Request
At the homecoming during the halftime activities, I think the band could have found a little time to let the Pom-Pon Squad to their routine. Seeing as how it was one minute long, and there was one minute and 45 seconds left in the time allotted for halftime.
It was quite rude of the band to leave the field when the Pom-Pon Squad was already out on the field. It not only made the squad look like fools, it gave the band a bad name.
Pom-Pon has always been a tradition at Maine, and it's one of the little things that make Homecoming. There has been a lot of tradition changing going on at Maine, and I feel that it is not helping the school. . .
Lori Anderson