Missouri ejects whole student section from basketball arena, should LSU

do the same for football games?



Far more interesting than Missouri's sluggish but somewhat routine 78-64 victory over IUPUI on Monday night was what went on in the stands at Mizzou Arena.

For the second straight home game, The Antlers, Missouri's legendary unsanctioned spirit group, was kicked out of the game and escorted by police and security out of the arena. Most of the crowd of 6,605 fans heartily booed the ejection.

On Saturday night, The Antlers were ejected 15 minutes before the game against Gardner-Webb even started.

The back-to-back ejections is the latest in a long series of friction between The Antlers, founded in 1976, and the Missouri administration. In 1996, the group was banned for the season.

Saturday's ejection was believed to be the result of one of the group's longest staples, a chant that greets opponents: "Scum, scum, scum, go back to where you're from ... and die." Apparently as a concession to the Missouri administration, the group changed the final part of the chant to "and cry."

But one of The Antlers told The Columbia Daily Tribune on Sunday that the group was ejected shortly after shouting the revised chant.