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FAMU Band Director Fired Amid Controversy

Posted on 25 November 2011. Tags: band, famu, famu band director fired, famu drum major dead, florida am, hazing, hbcu band hazing, julian white, robert champion

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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FAMU Marching 100 Suspended After Drum Major’s Death

Posted on 23 November 2011. Tags: famu, famu drum major dead, famu suspends band, hazing band famu, marching 100, robert champion, robert champion marching 100

The band is the lifeline of the HBCU experience and more often than not people go to the games to see the BAND play…not the team. It’s often swept under the rug – but most bands have some type of initiation process that many believe was adopted from the Greek process. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical [...]

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