Bring it back but adopt a clear “one warning and you’re out” policy for the first two years. Heck, in the absolute extreme, maybe force ASCMC to put a deposit down ( the cost of a future party), and if the admin decides it went out of hand the students forfeit the deposit.

Also, if DoS people are reading this, as an alumnus, seeing these types of traditions and privileges taken away from the students makes me identify less with the school and feel like the administration has lost perspective; such impressions make me much less inclined to donate. If I get called this year I will donate, but I might put the condition that my money can only be used for Madrigals activities…

Bring it back but adopt a clear “one warning and you’re out” policy for the first two years. Heck, in the absolute extreme, maybe force ASCMC to put a deposit down ( the cost of a future party), and if the admin decides it went out of hand the students forfeit the deposit.

Also, if DoS people are reading this, as an alumnus, seeing these types of traditions and privileges taken away from the students makes me identify less with the school and feel like the administration has lost perspective; such impressions make me much less inclined to donate. If I get called this year I will donate, but I might put the condition that my money can only be used for Madrigals activities…

“I think the Athenaeum and CMC’s administration miss the target by seeing problems like this with students as endemic, long-lasting, and uncontrollable. It’s a mistake that shows how disconnected some are by grouping and characterizing 1,211 students with phrases like “they should learn.” That’s the kind of statement you make when taking away a five year old’s toys if he can’t learn to play nicely with them.

You can’t expect to teach 1,211 students a lesson by ending a school tradition that most of them have never even seen in its full form. Institutional memory is very short at CMC, where 50% of the student body either enters or leaves every year.”

“I think the Athenaeum and CMC’s administration miss the target by seeing problems like this with students as endemic, long-lasting, and uncontrollable. It’s a mistake that shows how disconnected some are by grouping and characterizing 1,211 students with phrases like “they should learn.” That’s the kind of statement you make when taking away a five year old’s toys if he can’t learn to play nicely with them.

You can’t expect to teach 1,211 students a lesson by ending a school tradition that most of them have never even seen in its full form. Institutional memory is very short at CMC, where 50% of the student body either enters or leaves every year.”

Madrigals had been on the verge of being eliminated for some time now. Why wasn’t it till now? One the alumni did help keep it alive and two David and Bonnie kept hopes that CMCers would change. What finally killed it was that every year there was that one night where the majority of students there showed up drunk and out of control. So, maybe this year serves as an example and they’ll bring it back next year with expectations that we have learned our lesson.

Madrigals had been on the verge of being eliminated for some time now. Why wasn’t it till now? One the alumni did help keep it alive and two David and Bonnie kept hopes that CMCers would change. What finally killed it was that every year there was that one night where the majority of students there showed up drunk and out of control. So, maybe this year serves as an example and they’ll bring it back next year with expectations that we have learned our lesson.