Control Freak Sponsors

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Has anyone ever had to deal with a club sponsor--Greek or otherwise--who was a total control freak?

We're trying to deal with a high school cheerleading sponsor who wants to control what activities the cheerleaders are involved in out of school, even if they don't affect her squad in any way. She tried to throw 6 girls off the squad who were on an all-star team although there was no time or other conflict; luckily, the principal finally stopped that. The old witch has been doing this forever; I know women in their forties whom she screwed over in cheerleading over 20 years ago!

I once heard of a Birmingham high school whose sponsor required the cheerleaders to have hair no longer then eartip length and this was in the seventies--there were no competitions and everyone else had long straight hair back then, so what was the reason? Come to think of it, our high school drill team sponsor was a control freak too; you could get demerits for chewing gum away from school, among other things.

Control freak stories, anyone?