After attending the Sam Houston State home football games this season, I have a question for the administration. Did President Gaertner change the school’s mascot from the “Bearkats” to the “Seminoles” without notifying the student body? Or does the university borrow the Florida State Seminoles Marching Band for home games?The reason I asked is because whatever band has been sitting on the home side of Bowers Stadium for football games this season, repeatedly plays the “Tomahawk Chop”. For those that do not know the “Chop”, it is traditionally associated with the Florida State Seminoles and the Atlanta Braves. Is the band that short on song selections that we must hear the “Tomahawk Chop” as if we were sitting at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla., instead of Elliot Bowers Stadium in beautiful Huntsville? If the band wants to play other school songs, they might as well stay in the state of Texas. What’s wrong with playing “Texas Fight” or “Eyes of Texas” courtesy of the University of Texas? If they really wanted to leave the state of Texas and play Oklahoma’s “Boomer Sooner”, the band could at least attempt to stay in this region of the country. Maybe the university can poll the student body through SHSU’s Web site to determine which song from a university besides ours that the band can use for the next game?My advice to the university is that if you borrow a marching band on loan from another school, you should attempt to get the Marching Owl Band from Rice University. They are very entertaining and you could bus them in from Houston instead of going out of your way bringing in guests from Florida. Besides the action on the field, I am very much looking forward to seeing which band will be the special guests of the university at the season-ending game against the Bobcats from Southwest Texas.What’s next? Am I going to pickup a copy of The Houstonian, only to see it called the Florida State Times?