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Florida A&M University is getting serious about the culture of hazing at the school. The President, Dr. James Ammons, announced on Tuesday that the summer band camp program and all clubs at the university would be suspended. The move comes as the institution is being investigated after the death of Marching 100 drum major, Robert [...]

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In a crackdown on hazing that has taken place since the untimely death of drum major Robert Champion; four Florida A&M University students have been arrested for hazing. Champion died  from blunt force trauma injuries that have been associated with a hazing ritual aboard his band bus. Police said the group was apart of the [...]

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Two Florida A&M University students are planning to fight charges that they beat a fellow member of the famed Marching 100 band so hard during a hazing incident she was left with a broken thigh. From The Washington Post: Twenty-three-year-old Sean Hobson and 19-year-old Aaron Golson were charged Monday with hazing and battery. Twenty-two-year-old James [...]

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FAMU Board Reinstates Students & Band Director FAMU continues to deal with the fallout over a drum major’s suspected hazing death. From The Grio: A board that oversees Florida’s public universities has started an investigation into whether school administrators did enough when hazing was brought to their attention. University President James Ammons may be ousted [...]

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FAMU President James H. Ammons has fired the director of the school’s famed Marching 100 band, Julian White. “While Dr. White has had a distinguished career in music education and administration within the university as director of bands,” Ammons said, “I did not feel there was competence involving reporting allegations of hazing within the Department [...]

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