Does music incite violence? It makes us move, jump, break, swing, and ‘mosh’. The energy flows from the music into the musician, and then violently hits the crowd, sending audiences into body jerking convulsions, we call dance.

Are audiences to blame when music brings thousands together and chaos erupts? Don’t blame music; don’t blame beauty when the ugly within us murders a soul expression. Blame CSUS insurers, General Star Indemnity, and , Genesis Indemnity, for killing artistic expression of music on campus. They think hip-hop, rap, and forms of rock, including punk and heavy metal incite violence.

A list of exclusions on the CSUS Risk Management Homepage, show rap, hip-hop and heavy metal concerts, including dances which play these genres, a great risk to insure.

“Rap and hip-hop have not been banned from campus,” said Leslie Davis, Director of the University Union. “Our insurance will not cover bands or groups that they consider high risk activities.”

So music or some genres of music, according to paper pushing insurers, and acclaimed music critic accountants possess the evil genre of violence.

“It’s an insurance policy, not a university policy,” Davis said.

Then why does this University allow for punk rock bands to showcase their killer talents on stage at campus?

, Dean Sorenson,, Director of the Unique program that sponsors and promotes on-campus events says that it is a band-to-band issue. “The insurance company checks the bands record…if it is hip-hop or rap, than it is usually denied upon request.”

“Bands can pay a coverage cost to the insurance company if they wish to perform,” said Sorenson.

Whether music creates hatred within humans is a highly debated topic, I’m no psychologist or sociologist, but there was human violence way before man had the ability to create music. Some weak-minded listeners are easily influenced by whatever violent, religious, or dollar-bill propaganda that is being spit at them.

According to an 1997 article in the Washington Times, mice are influenced by music.

, David Merrell,, a high school student from Suffolk, Virginia, won top honors in regional and state science fairs for his experiment involving mice, a maze, and hard-rock and roll music.

“I had to cut my project short because all the hard-rock mice killed each other. None of the classical mice did that at all.”

After establishing a baseline of about 10 minutes for the mice to navigate the maze, David started playing music 10 hours a day, and then put the mice through the maze three times a week for three weeks.

His findings: the control-group mice, which did not listen to any music, were able to cut five minutes off their time; the mice that listened to classical music cut 8.5 minutes off their time; and the mice that listened to hard-rock and roll music took 20 minutes longer to navigate the maze.

The insurance company that represents CSUS must believe us to be mice. It’s so sad that the combination of music and humans creates anything but art and good people.

Would General Star Indemnity and Genesis Condemnity allow President Bush,‘s bombing-ass to come here to rap about the necessity of death and destruction? Probably, but music that ignites unity with raging energy, they’re not having that.

Blame violence, blame money making insurance companies biased interpretation of Hip-Hop and Rock culture. You know what? Don’t blame them. There should be no reason for an insurance company to need the coverage for the audience of a concert. Blame parents for letting their kids grow up to be dummy’s who’s little insight, insights an uncontrolled anger. Don’t blame CSUS policies. If music and man can’t live harmonious, blame man. Violence.