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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Posted on 08 December 2011. Tags: band, band hazing, famu, florida band, hazing, james ammons, marching 100, robert champion
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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Posted on 02 December 2011. Tags: drum major, famu, famu band, florida a&m university, four famu students suspended, hazing, hazing death famu, hbcu hazing, james ammons, memo, robert champion, robert champion justice
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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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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Posted on 29 June 2011. Tags: alcohol poisoning, cornell student dead, cornell university, death cornell student, fraternity, george desdunes, hazing, lawsuit, pledges, sigma alpha epsilon, sorority, suspension
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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