The Bowdoin Orient

December 1, 2000
Volume CXXXII, Number 10

A request for respect from Men's Hockey

by Colin Robinson '01 and Alex Tatum '01

To the Student Body:

  As representatives of the men's hockey team, we would like to thank you, the student body, for your support. The student section of Dayton Arena is louder and more excited than any other school's student section we have played in front of in the past three years. Our biggest advantage over other teams is our home crowd, and without this advantage last year we would not have been able to go undefeated at home in the regular season.
  While we appreciate your enthusiasm, we would like to remind you that there are other people at the game that may be offended by some of the chants. Some of these local fans have been coming to Bowdoin games for more years than our parents have been alive. These fans attend games because they love Bowdoin College, but when the crowd spends most of the game screaming and chanting obscenities, we worry about how they might perceive the student body. Just remember that most of the people on the other side of the rink are young children and grandparents.
  This is not to say that we do not want you to scream and yell during the game and that every comment needs to be a positive remark about Bowdoin, but what the team asks is that you respect some of the people who travel to all of our away games and who are across the rink from you .
  We cannot thank you enough for the support you have given us over the years, and we look forward to playing in front of you this Friday, Saturday, and next Tuesday for the Colby game.

Sincerely,
Colin Robinson '01 and Alex Tatum '01