We’re 41 weeks into this year-long archive search, and with this issue the theme is musical entertainment. First, what has become the perennial question of which music venues will survive: We asked that last week with the shuttering of Is, just as we pondered it 12 years ago, as Trax started to unravel. Then, the matter of the UVA Pep Band. We grant you, some might argue whether it was musical, but it was certainly entertainment. When, in a gesture six years ago that ushered in the era of the Cavalier Marching Band, this week’s cover subject, John Casteen apologized to West Virginians for a Pep Band skit that had gone too far, we were not amused. For that the UVA Prez earned from us a year-end Cheap Shot award.
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Paging through the archives
“Despite holding three degrees in English, UVA President John Casteen must have never learned the definition of the word ‘joke.’ Maybe he’s never seen the ‘Award-Winning Virginia Fighting Cavalier Indoor/Outdoor Precision Marching Pep Band,’ either.”
John Borgmeyer
December 30, 2003
Getting covered
September 23, 1997
