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More FAMU Students Hit With Hazing Charges

Posted on 13 December 2011. Tags: band, black colleges, famu, florida a m university, hazing, hazing marching 100, hbcu, marching 100, updates famu

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 Marching 100 Drum Major Found Dead

Posted on 21 November 2011. Tags: famu drum major found dead, famu marching 100, florida a m university, hbcu, robert champion

A tragedy hit another HBCU campus… A Florida A&M drum major died suddenly following the Florida Classic Saturday. Atlanta native Robert Champion, 27, had just returned to the FAMU marching band’s hotel, in Orlando, FL, when he became sick and complained of being unable to breathe. Friends of the victim called 911. He was transported to Doctor Phillips Hospital where he [...]

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