Mard? Mard? Mard?

Lehigh/Bucknell Psyche Run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS23S_KHvMQ
Lehigh/Bucknell Pregame show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruaudg_P2Mc
Lehigh/Bucknell Halftime show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_G0FgENuEA

Title explanation:
Mard [mahrd] -noun:
1. a traffic cone
2. a traffic cone "procured" by the Lehigh Marching 97
3. the combination of the words "yard" and "marker"
4. a traffic cone "procured" by the Lehigh Marching 97 and used as a yard marker
5. something a frosh or fritch* carries every day at practice as a mark of their status or lack of one

(*Fritch [frich] -noun, plural fritch. Informal.
a specifically female college or high-school freshman, according to the Lehigh Marching 97. General term: frosh, specific: fritch)
Meaning, a frosh isn't always a fritch but a fritch is always a frosh. You only use "fritch" to be specific. We're all called frosh anyway so you rarely hear the word "fritch" when referring to a female frosh. As my rank-mate says, "Rank 10 frosh best friends". She says this because there are two fritch and one frosh - she can't say "Rank 10 fritch best friends" because she'd exclude the one [male] frosh in our rank (unless she's only talking about me and her).


The fritch of the 97 are dressing up together for Halloween.

On the note of the mards, it is kind of pathetic how many kleptomaniacs we have in the 97, and how often we use the word "procure" to describe something we've done. In example, when we play a certain song at the game (the "official" title is 1075) the frosh get together and march around the stadium, looking for someone to conduct for the band for this particular song. Then we march them back and have a whole...er...script to go through with them...and we find two volunteers from the band to strip (the song's actual title is "Stripper").

Student Conductor (StudCon): Hey band!
Band: Hey what?
StudCon: Look what the frosh have procured for us!
Band: Yay!
StudCon: What do we want them to do?
Band: Conduct!
StudCon: What do we want them to conduct?
Band: 1075
StudCon: How do we do that?
Band: Down, across chest, out, up, down, across chest, out, up

Anyway, the band likes to "procure" stuff. I don't even want to know what they procure anymore. :/ But I know that whenever a guy frosh (it's more them than the fritch, I think) sees a mard (or a ball, can't forget those) they start yelling out "Mard!" (or "Ball!") like the seagulls from Finding Nemo. 


~E