Hank Nuwer, Author; Hazing Deaths Database

Linkt: http://www.freep.com/article/20120515/NEWS07/205150366/FAMU-band-s-suspension-after-hazing-death-to-be-extended

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida A&M University’s famed marching band is being suspended for at least one more school year as officials try to cleanse the hazing culture that led to the death of a drum major, the school’s president said Monday.

FAMU President James Ammons said the Marching 100 should stay off the field at least until a new band director is hired and new rules for the band have been adopted.

Eleven FAMU band members face felony charges in the November hazing death of Robert Champion, while two others face misdemeanor counts. The band has been banned from performing since soon after he died, and band director Julian White recently retired after it was revealed that at least 100 band members were not students when Champion died.

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“OGDEN — Nine Ogden High School senior cheerleaders have been suspended for hazing incoming cheerleaders. Several other students are also being i…“

Under investigation: another Sigma Alpha Epsilon death (San Diego State’s Barzeen Barzanji), which has occurred after the undergraduate members rejected a measure that would require chapters to be dry following a previous death at Cornell. http://www.phikaps.org/news/89893/Updated-Statement-Regarding-the-Death-of-a-Student.htm

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FAMU in news: excerpt from the Sentinel article by Denise Balona: “By Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel

Florida A&M University band director Julian White, who has been under intense criticism since the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion in Orlando last fall, retired unexpectedly Thursday amid more troubling revelations about the embattled Marching 100 band.

White’s attorney, Chuck Hobbs, announced the decision late Thursday afternoon. White, 71, chairman of the university’s music department and director of bands since 1998, had been fighting for months to keep his job.

Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Scott and the chancellor of the State University System said Thursday that FAMU’s famous band, which is under indefinite suspension, is not ready to take the field again.”

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/10/hazing-incidents-draw-increasingly-intense-responses

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