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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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The Importance of Being Transgressive

The university is a place where you get to go try on seven crazy ideas before breakfast meet the young trustee it's out in the plaza, stop by the Federalist Society. The Stanford band marching band was well known for its wonderful pranks and much more interesting than the football game used to be the Stanford band. Now they're put under intense faculty control to the point that the faculty director of the Stanford band now must approve all nicknames given by band members to other band members. You don't even have to play an instrument to be in the Stanford big band you can just play the air guitar if you want to.

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