Hail and Unite Initial Resolution has been formally withdrawn
Per CSG president Bobby Dishell, resolution 4-025 (Hail and Unite resolution) has been formally withdrawn.
And there was much rejoicing.
Edit: Here's the info for Hail and Unite...they may not go away so easily
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @hailandunite
February 13th, 2015 at 12:58 AM ^
But is that the first version or the "rebranded" one?
February 13th, 2015 at 12:59 AM ^
Kill it with fire, and then light it again
February 13th, 2015 at 1:06 AM ^
I'm asking because in this article, it sounds like there were already plans to withdraw the first proposal to make room for the rebranded one they're planning on introducing next week. So the battle may not be over.
February 13th, 2015 at 1:18 AM ^
I know one member on the CSG who will oppose it and with the conversation I had with Dishell, he wont support it either. This needs to be stopped regardless.
February 13th, 2015 at 1:22 AM ^
You should probably change your headline - it makes it sound like the issue is all over when they're gearing up to launch up this monstrosity again.
I did notice on ther website that they have email and Twitter addresses for us to contact:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @hailandunite
The MGoCommunity should have at it.
February 13th, 2015 at 1:26 AM ^
Thank you, and I added the contact info
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February 13th, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
What's most fascinating about that gif is how the adult chimps reacted -- just like concerned human parents and adults would. Well, except that, the chimps didn't punish the pusher by taking away his iPhone.
February 13th, 2015 at 11:18 AM ^
The other adult sort of pushes the aggressor away with a small smack, it appears - very interesting.
February 13th, 2015 at 12:14 PM ^
Dude, on their website it lists those two addresses and says to "tell us what you think."
Now obviously, people shouldn't be assholes when they do that. Just explain to them calmly why it's not a great idea.
February 13th, 2015 at 12:58 AM ^
It had to die.
February 13th, 2015 at 12:59 AM ^
I don't know about rejoicing, more like a sigh of relief, but good news anyway.
February 13th, 2015 at 1:02 AM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 1:15 AM ^
Pretty sure they're still planning on "the movement". 105.1 podcast.
The radio guys are very much against it... Home Alone 4 is well-spoken, but it doesn't matter.
February 13th, 2015 at 7:11 AM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 1:32 AM ^
and Hail No to the movement!
February 13th, 2015 at 1:53 AM ^
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February 13th, 2015 at 2:05 AM ^
Hail! To The Victors, Valient! (literally!)
February 13th, 2015 at 7:57 AM ^
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February 13th, 2015 at 2:35 AM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 2:37 AM ^
What is with the obsession with "pump-up songs?" I mean, seriously. What did we ever do before awful, bass-heavy pop songs told us what we should feel during a sporting event?
Oh, that's right--we were singing The Victors. And it worked just fine.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:06 AM ^
already by PopEvil that is horrible. No need for another god awful pump up song.
February 13th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 2:57 AM ^
Now that Brandon is gone can someone please start a Get Rid of Special K resolution or petition or something? Brian, can you use your internet powers to push that please?
February 13th, 2015 at 4:00 AM ^
It's not dead.
They're trying to re-brand it as a "pump up" song instead of a fight song. There are new articles in the Daily, The Washington Post and the freep about it. The also have their own web site now.
Here's an idea for a pump up song: let the marching band play.
And it won't cost the student government nearly $3,000 in seed money.
The disc-jockey/piped in music at Michigan football games is horrible. It needs to either go away or be significantly minimized. It's generic and does nothing to improve the "event experience". Spending thousands of dollars of student organization money and enlisting celebrities won't make it better.
February 13th, 2015 at 6:35 AM ^
This might just be me, but the part of this I really can't stand is that it is a group which wants to give in to the things that people have tried - recently unsuccessfully - to keep out of places like Michigan Stadium. It used to be that I would go to games to escape the sort that would be trying to peddle "pump up" or "hype" music and just have a band and a game for a few hours. Worse, this is seed money for someone to theoretically in turn write something almost no one would want. I really do not understand why they feel that this needs to be done.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:13 AM ^
It's a requirement for Advanced Resumé Stuffing 600. See the Ross School syllabus for full course description.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
The Michigan Marching Band is the best in the country and they can play all day long.
February 13th, 2015 at 3:53 AM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 8:17 AM ^
Couldn't have happened to a nicer song.
February 13th, 2015 at 8:23 AM ^
The new song. And I checked, Boner is not on the list of words one can not use on campus.
February 13th, 2015 at 8:35 AM ^
There is no version of anything like this that would work. We point and laugh when any other school does this. You know as soon as the song is recorded there will be an awful music video produced that will circulate every college sports blog. If they weren't so sincere about this awful idea I would think they were pulling a long con on us.
February 13th, 2015 at 8:45 AM ^
I think they've gone about this all wrong.
I'll be honest: Having another thing that is "Michigan-only" and Michigan-specific in the band repertoire wouldn't be the worst thing.
The fight song is amazing and should never share the limelight with some "alternate" fight song. EVER.
Nor do I think we need a different "pump up" song. The fight song IS a pump-up song, the only one you need.
BUT--if the band had another, recognizable thing to launch into to mix it up a little? Something that is ours, unlike the arrangements that a dozen other bands do? I'd be fine with it. I'd welcome it. Teach me the words, let the crowd get into it, roll it out once a game. That's fine. I'm not sure how you'd start that tradition, but I think there's room for it.
But you don't introduce the idea by proposing to ADD a fight song, or then abort that and call it a pump-up song. That makes me want to take this idea and drive a stake through its heart.
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February 13th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^
We have that. Temptation should be played on every 3rd down. Argue about whether or not you like the cheer that goes along with it, but that's our other thing. Plus Let's Go Blue. Which is ours, every other college/ high school band in the world. And the Blues Brothers (even though that's been played to death for every Michigan sporting event (it should have just stayed in hockey except for homecoming)).
This is just a reaction to young students who don't know the traditions finally having a reason to be excited about a football season. We FOGs know what it's like to be excited by Michigan football, but the kids don't. I can't blame them for being excited. I can blame them for thinking that they need to make something new to make Michigan Football better, which doesn't EVER need to happen. If something new is going to come about, it's going to be a natural. actually grassroots thing, not something proposed to the CSG by an underclassmen who wears those ridiculous Ann Arbor Fucking Michigan shirts (which should all be put into a fire and burned, along with plenty of the people that wear them).
February 13th, 2015 at 9:11 AM ^
If the song sucks then people will be againist it and it won't be played. But most of the strong reaction againist it has come without hearing what they have made.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
I don't care if the contest winner turns out to be some kind of latter day Giuseppi Verdi. This is an epically bad idea because it is an attempt at a newly manufactured "tradition." Dave Brandon would only be too proud to have sponsored something this idiotic.
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