When Can I Wear My Lederhosen?

So, I just received this email from Student Affairs:

 This Saturday (Sept. 30) at 7:00pm, the Metrolanta Steel Orchestra will be performing Caribbean steel drum music on campus. The performance will be held in the [snip] dining hall and will be free and open to the public.  After an hour of music there will be a brief intermission and then the dinner portion of the event will begin.  People will be free to leave at this time, or stay and sample Caribbean food served by the Students of Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA).
There would be 5 plated exotic and tropical meals featuring cuisines from Trinidad & Tobago, East India, and Jamaica -- selections include jerk chicken, callaloo, fried plantains, paratha, bake & boljol, black cake, pelau and sorrel .
The cost is $25 per person. We will be serving the dinner shortly after 8:00pm.
The performance by the Metrolanta Steel Orchestra is sponsored by the kindness of the Cultural Events Committee. This part of the event is free and open to the public. If you just want to come and listen to real Caribbean steel drum music, SOCA would love for you to be there!
We invite you to come and enjoy the island life! Yeh Mon!

If interested Email: [snip]
Make checks payable to SOCA, cash also accepted.

Are you kidding me? What are they doing to my beloved college? Last year they tried some Harlem Jazz Celebration "thing". I would equate its success to something that rivaled that of Chernobyl. Not only was it impossible for students to carry on a conversation in the Trough over our less than usually substandard meal, but the staff couldn't stand it either. There was green, black and red stuff everywhere (no idea why they chose those colors). Personally, I was waiting for a shootout to start once the Black Panthers arrived. Thank God they never came.

So, let me know the day we have some real music with accordions and lederhosen. I mean, when you talk about the musical greats, who do you talk about? I don't mean Heatwave, The Spinners, and Freddie Jackson. I'm talking about Beethoven, Bach, Offenbach, Mozart, and Winschermann are some of the names that come to mind. The list doesn't start with Kunta Kinte. Sorry, but its a fact. Let's get our "musical entertainment" for the "Cultural Events Committee" back in line.

Crispy