When the Notre Dame Band takes its first steps onto the artificial field of the future, it will do so without any returning members of the Irish Guard. Part of a series of changes designed by Band Director Dr. Ken Dye to return the group to its "historical traditions," membership in the Irish Guard will now be a one- or two-year post, limited only to current band members or managers. Gone, too, will be a rigid height requirement and, if you take the word of now former-members, some of the ...