This established a tradition of a student-run organization that currently has University practice space and a faculty advisor (currently Karen Mellor), but is primarily driven by its student leadership.

Brown Band members proudly display these buttons on their uniforms, often making large patterns out of them.

Renamed "Elrod" by Ballon's successors, his likeness adorns almost every object that the Brown Band wears or sells, including their uniforms, pens, and kazoos.

Bandies often use a variation on the name "Elrod Snidley" for the titles of intramural sports teams its members play on.

Bandies taped up posters of Elrod with the slogan, "Vote for Snidley - he won't do diddley!"

Many songs have alternate lyrics that the band sings to pass time on long bus trips.

Some of the more frequently played songs include: The Band is present at every home and away Ivy football game in the fall semester.

On the morning of the Parents' Weekend football game, the Band completes a Campus March that takes them through several dorms and outside most of the rest.

While the Band stands by the claim that this is to build team spirit and to get people to come to the football game, many students are unhappy with the early wakeup.

The Band "scrambles" and skates into forms on the ice while a humorous script is read over the PA system.

This maneuver is likely the most ambitious and difficult stunt attempted on a regular basis by the Brown Band.