Tag Archive | "hazing"

More FAMU Students Hit With Hazing Charges

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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Future of FAMU’s President Is Uncertain

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 Expels Four Students Connected To Suspected Hazing Death

The FAMU hazing scandal keeps getting worse…. Florida A&M University released a memo to the Board of Trustees saying that it has dismissed four students, for their role in the suspected hazing death of drum major Robert Champion. University President James Ammons reiterates in his memo that the university has a zero-tolerance policy on hazing, [...]

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FAMU Band Director Fired Amid Controversy

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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Mom Suing Fraternity Over Son’s Alleged Hazing Death

Student Left To Die After Initiation Rituals It’s also heartbreaking to hear stories about students who die at the hands of their “big sisters or big brothers” during initiation season. One mother has decided to make someone pay for the untimely death of her 19-year-son. From ABC NEWS The heartbroken mother of a Cornell University [...]

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