A student organization at Wisconsin is in trouble for alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and hazing, and no, it’s not a frat. It’s actually Wisconsin’s wild marching band, and they’re now suspended from playing at any football games barring an investigation into the charges. They missed out on this weekend’s game against Ohio State (surely that was the reason the team was too unmotivated to win), and will continue to miss games until the matter is resolved.

The specifics of what exactly the band did is not yet clear, but looking to the past, it’s easy to see a pattern of this kind of behavior from the band. In 2007, assistant director Michael Lorenz resigned after he was accused of improper conduct with a female colleague during an ’06 band trip (read: he banged her). After the raucous 2006 trip, Chancellor John Wiley threatened the band because of what was rumored to have happened on the trip:

Wiley, in an October 2006 letter to Leckrone, called band members’ behavior “boorish to patently dangerous and unlawful.”

At that time, seminude band members were alleged to have danced suggestively and there were reports of women being forced to kiss other women to be allowed to enter bathrooms on a bus.

The university said in a statement that the latest allegations were consistent with the 2006 troublesome behavior.

Wow. Wisconsin’s band is pretty FRAT, I have to say. What did they do? Make freshmen do the elephant walk set to marching music? Force the trombone section to bong microwaved beer out of a tuba? Had a contest to see which girl could best deep throat a piccolo? Hopefully the investigation gets made public soon.