SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Fans of No. 5 Gonzaga have been asked to stop yelling "Brokeback Mountain" at opposing players.

 

The reference to the recent movie about homosexual cowboys was chanted by some fans during Monday's game against Saint Mary's, and is apparently intended to suggest an opposing player is gay.

The chants were the subject of several classroom discussions over the past week, and the faculty advisers for the Kennel Club booster group urged students this week to avoid "inappropriate chants" during the Bulldogs' Saturday game against Stanford, which was nationally televised on ESPN.

 

"We implore the students of the Kennel Club to show the nation this weekend what makes Gonzaga different," Kennel Club advisers David Lindsay and Aaron Hill wrote in a letter in the student newspaper, the Bulletin. "We challenge the students of the Kennel Club to exhibit the class, the creativeness and the competitive drive that has become a foundation of this great university."

 

Mark Alfino, a professor of philosophy at Gonzaga, said the matter had been widely discussed by faculty and students.

 

"Many faculty members have brought up the discussion in their classes," he said. "They find none of the students have been comfortable with the chant, and that's a good sign."

 

Ryan Olson, the president of Helping Educate Regarding Orientation, a gay-straight alliance on campus, said the chants are just the latest incident that shows GU is struggling to make gays and lesbians welcome on campus.

 

In a letter to the Bulletin, the HERO membership wrote, "This is not even remotely the first time that Kennel Club chanters have chanted homophobic phrases at basketball games."

 

"A lot of people in the Kennel Club say it wasn't them" that chanted "Brokeback Mountain," Olson said. "But there's something to be said about apathy as well. Students didn't stop people from saying it."

 

In Friday's Bulletin, senior Callie Monroe wrote a column calling the chants a case of "outright discrimination."

 

"Imagine yourself as a homosexual individual in the midst of your peers, classmates and friends during this 'Brokeback Mountain' cheer," Monroe wrote. "I simply do not understand how a student body claiming to live by Jesuit principles of acceptance and respect for all can allow an incident like this to happen and remain silent."

 

Me, I'm always a big fan of the Ohio Northern taunt where they hold up newspapers in unison and act like they're reading them the whole opposing team intro.

And somehow this gets more attention than "JJ is Redick-ulous" "-ly gay". OK. Whatever. Is MD more of a media darling than Gone-zaga? Stupid East Coast media bias.

Our high-school fans are some of the best you've ever seen and our most popular chant is toward the opposing team when someone is shooting free-throws. We chant, "H-O-M-O HOMO AT THE FREE THROW." I'm not saying it's politically correct, but it is funny.

And somehow this gets more attention than "JJ is Redick-ulous" "-ly gay". OK. Whatever. Is MD more of a media darling than Gone-zaga? Stupid East Coast media bias.

 

maybe because this is a chant by a student section and the sign youre referring to was by one random person

 

also, dont forget Maryland got a ton of heat for the "f*** You J.J." chant, which was also on ESPN

when UConn came into town last week, whenever guard Marcus Williams would touch the ball, the students would chant "where's my laptop?" after he got in trouble for stealing a laptop, among other things last semester...

 

being a good sport about it, he was joining in on the clap clap clap clap clap

 

aso, back when IU had a player by the name of Tom Coverdale... whenever we would travel to Purdue and he would touch the ball, the Boilermaker faithful would yell "al-co-ho-lic clap clap clap clap clap"..

 

funny stuff

And somehow this gets more attention than "JJ is Redick-ulous" "-ly gay". OK. Whatever. Is MD more of a media darling than Gone-zaga? Stupid East Coast media bias.

 

that was a sign held up by one fan...this was an entire group of fans chanting it

that's why

Which of course is nothing compared to what the Duke students have done over the years. A few examples:

 

"After a bad call, they used to yell, 'The refs, they suck, they really, really suck,' " Jay Bilas says. "And when (referee) Dick Paparo would come in and make a bad call, they'd chant, 'You suck, Dick!' "

 

This infuriated Coach K, who insisted that the Crazies cease and desist. After the next bad call by Paparo, the crowd chanted, "You suck, Richard."

 

Or

 

When Maryland's Herman Veal was alleged to have sexually abused a fellow student -- he was disciplined, but never formally charged -- the Crazies showered him with more than 1,000 panties, and one student held up a sign that read, "HEY, HERM, DID YOU SEND HER FLOWERS?" (After this incident, Lefty Driesel once again distinguished himself as a good sport and worthy foe. When asked if he was upset by the sign, Lefty said, "No, I can't read. I went to Duke.")

Which of course is nothing compared to what the Duke students have done over the years. A few examples:

 

"After a bad call, they used to yell, 'The refs, they suck, they really, really suck,' " Jay Bilas says. "And when (referee) Dick Paparo would come in and make a bad call, they'd chant, 'You suck, Dick!' "

 

This infuriated Coach K, who insisted that the Crazies cease and desist. After the next bad call by Paparo, the crowd chanted, "You suck, Richard."

 

Or

 

When Maryland's Herman Veal was alleged to have sexually abused a fellow student -- he was disciplined, but never formally charged -- the Crazies showered him with more than 1,000 panties, and one student held up a sign that read, "HEY, HERM, DID YOU SEND HER FLOWERS?" (After this incident, Lefty Driesel once again distinguished himself as a good sport and worthy foe. When asked if he was upset by the sign, Lefty said, "No, I can't read. I went to Duke.")

 

but those are tasteful because they dont use the f word or call anybody gay :mischief2