Comments on: Video: U of M marching band forms TCF Bank corporate logo

By: Marcia Mueller

Marcia Mueller — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:21:05 +0000

I know these are hard economic times, but I really hate to see universities have to pander to corporations to get the funding they need. I fear too much outside influence–corporate, political, religious–on institutions to only ask the ideologically correct questions and to do research that will not cross the line of conservative church beliefs.

By: Rmath

Rmath — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:28:08 +0000

How incredibly tacky..

It’s a good thing the stadium isn’t sponsored by Viagra. Can you imagine what shape the marching band would be forced to form on the field?

By: Corporate Babysitter » Blog Archive » University of Minnesota marching band can form a perfect corporate logo

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:33:10 +0000

[...] Steller writes about the University of Minnesota’s marching band forming the TCF logo on a new promotional video. [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:16:15 +0000

I do not think we are making god of TCF Bank by displaying a logo. I have a hard time believing that historians eons from now will surmise that we worshiped a bank. Context is important here.

Rather trivial and irrelevant topic I must say.

By: Paul Schmelzer

Paul Schmelzer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:08:30 +0000

Actually, no it’s not. There’s one about the St. Paul School Board and another about apparent constitutional problems with a religious group that does public school assemblies. Have you looked around?

By: Perot

Perot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:05:00 +0000

This is your “top story”? Any credibility you may have had in the past is surely shot now.

By: Henk

Henk — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:49:11 +0000

Cultures have always been judged by the monuments they build and to whom they dedicate them. What does it say about our culture that we diefy a banking institution? A right-wing institution at that. We are witnessing decline of our civilization.

By: T-Paw Is A Jerk

T-Paw Is A Jerk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:11:02 +0000

I want to throw up. These greedy bankers at TCF overcharge all of the customers and then bribe the poor college kids in the band into being an ad for TCF by buying the naming rights at the stadium.

This is important because it is how greedy capitalists infiltrate our learning institutions and try to convert these students into following their evil ways.

We should not allow any corporate advertising or influence within any institution of learning in this state.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:02:51 +0000

This is a terrible, terrible article that tells me absolutely nothing. What was the point? Okay, so corporate money was used… and a month ago the band spelled out the name of the stadium on the field for several seconds… What else? What a waste of space.