Edy Pratt’s champion cheerleading squad at Towson booted following hazing allegations. http://www.thetowerlight.com/2013/08/cheer-team-suspended/
Scroll down for 7 videos featuring Hank Nuwer on miscellaneous hazing topics. http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/video/drinking-and-hazing
Another light penalty by the courts given a drummer pleading no contest to pushing Robert Champion during fatal FAMU band hazing on bus. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-famu-hazing-female-plea-20130802,0,5813253.story
Here is the link. This is a pretty important story.
brief extract:
Jermaine Robertson came to Florida A&M University as a freshman in 1992 with a burning desire to be a member of the famed Marching 100.
He had learned to play the alto saxophone growing up in Jacksonville. Now he wanted to march with the best band in the land.
It didn’t matter to him that he would be required to subject himself to hazing rituals in order to be a part of the “100.” If that was the cost of membership, so be it.
“I was well aware that hazing was going to be part of the band, and I was OK with that. As dangerous as that sounds, that was my attitude,” Robertson said. “A lot of students have that attitude.”
A mother reported a severe physical pummeling for the Naked Vikings Spirit group. My book Broken Pledges recounts a couple other serious injuries in spirit groups at the college level. There has been one spirit group death related to hazing: Gabe Higgins for the University of Texas Cowboys. The death of Higgins led to major reform efforts by Cowboys alums. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGUWL-XNcOI