Tiger football returns to Death Valley this Saturday, bringing with it the ongoing controversy over the “Oh-Wee-Oh” chant.Student Government will distribute stickers reading “Oh-Wee-Oh Tigers” outside the stadium leading up to kickoff Saturday.Tiger Band drum major Rob Dowie said Tiger Band played the chant during the game at Washington on Saturday without noticing any problems.”The band will continue playing the chant as part of our touchdown sequence as long as the unsportsmanlike chant isn’t heard,” Dowie said. “As soon as the ‘You Suck’ is noticeable, the band will permanently remove ‘Oh-Wee-Oh.'”SG purchased about 2,000 stickers and began distributing them Wednesday in Free Speech Alley. The stickers cost $181 and were purchased with programming funds, said SG Executive Director of Athletics Melissa Hart.”Chanting profanities gives a bad name to LSU,” Hart said. “We want to keep our image clean as a top-tier university and show that we are friendly in public, and we know how to act. Even though people use profanity, we don’t want the whole section saying, ‘You suck.'”Tiger Band will practice the chant with the student section between 20 and 50 minutes before kickoff Saturday, Dowie said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille. The chant was subject to controversy since Tiger Band discontinued it after the student section created its own rendition of the chant involving the words “you suck” and a shortened version of South Carolina’s mascot — The Gamecocks — during the football game against South Carolina in 2007.”I’m so used to it being ‘Oh-Wee-Oh, you suck’ from my freshman year,” said Desmond Green, agricultural business junior. “Once you do something so many times, it sticks with you. It was kind of weird when they brought it back with ‘Tigers’ at the end, but I can understand the University and band trying to keep the image of the school respectable.”Former SG President Colorado Robertson partnered with Tiger Band and University administrators to get the chant back on a trial basis for the Alabama game last season.The chant was played at each home game since the Tigers welcomed Nick Saban and Alabama last season.”According to SEC rules, neither the band nor the cheerleaders are allowed to lead or participate in unsportsmanlike cheers,” Dowie said. “It doesn’t really matter to us what the fans cheer, as long as the band isn’t leading or contributing to it. I am optimistic it will work out.”————Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]