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*A little over a year later, after the hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major, 26-year-old Robert Champion, twelve former band mates have been charged with manslaughter. Two others have been charged in the incident as well. According to the Huffington Post, defendants are facing 15-year prison sentences. Champion died in November 2011 in [...]
*Florida A&M University has offered $300,000 – the maximum it says it can offer without state legislative action – as a settlement to the family of Robert Champion Jr., the drum major who died after a hazing ritual last year, a university attorney said Thursday. However, the family’s attorney, Chris Chestnut, said that the offer [...]
*One of the students who was involved in the death of FAMU Marching Band member Robert Champion during a hazing initiation was sentenced Monday to six months of community control, two years of supervised probation and 200 hours of community service. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Brian Jones, who had previously pleaded not guilty before [...]
*Florida A&M marching band member Dante Martin faces felony hazing charges in relation to the death of former FAMU drum major Robert Champion. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Authorities say Champion was beaten to death in November by Marching 100 members during a hazing incident aboard one of the band’s charter buses. Martin is [...]
*James Ammons, who had earlier announced that he would step down as president of Florida A&M University in the fall, abruptly announced today that he was leaving – effective immediately — amid the continuing fallout surrounding the hazing scandal involving the school’s famed marching band. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] At an emergency meeting of [...]
*(Via ABC News) – Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion endured a lethal pummeling down the aisle of a pitch black bus that rocked from the force of the violence inside, the culmination of a tradition of violent hazing at the nationally known marching band. Champion struggled, with a female band member holding him back [...]
*(Via Miami Herald) – The shocking and tragic death of a Florida A&M University band member last November, which provoked an outcry in Florida and nationwide over the longstanding practice of campus hazing, culminated Wednesday when prosecutors filed charges — although none for murder — against 13 suspects. The 13 defendants who allegedly took part [...]
*The parents of a FAMU student who was hazed to death have revealed he was gay, according to CBS News.* Close to two months after the death of Robert Champion, his parents have revealed their son’s sexual orientation adding another layer to the already controversial case. Champion was murdered November 19th in a harsh beating [...]
*Florida A&M’s president will keep his job after the university board of trustees Monday rejected a call from Gov. Rick Scott that James Ammons be suspended while the hazing death of a band member is investigated. As previously reported, the decision comes three days after the state medical examiner ruled that 26-year-old Robert Champion’s Nov. [...]
*The unexpected death of Florida A&M University marching band drum major Robert Champion has been ruled a homicide according to USA Today. After being found in the back of a tour bus, the college student’s death looked like the result of a hazing incident. The Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the 26-year-old’s death was [...]
*Authorities in Florida looking into the unexplained death of a drum major at Florida A&M University said Wednesday the investigation has uncovered possible fraud at the school reports CNN. During the “scores of interviews” that have been conducted, “there was evidence gleaned that there were financial irregularities having to do with the band and several [...]
*Three Florida A&M band members were charged Monday in the beating of a woman during hazing rituals that took place about three weeks before drum major Robert Champion was killed during a band trip to Orlando, reports CBS News. Police say hazing was also involved in the Champion death. Tallahassee police said that on Oct. [...]
Urban Meyer just got the new head coaching job at Ohio State University. His $4 million annual salary makes him one of the highest paid coaches in college football; Before he was fired from Syracuse University for allegations of sexual misconduct, assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine’s salary was a reported $300,000; Before he was terminated [...]
*Florida A&M University/FAMU President James Ammons dismissed four students for playing a major role in the death of Robert Champion, a marching band member last month. Ammons made the announcement in a memo to the FAMU Board of Trustees earlier this week. Champion, 26, was found unresponsive on Nov. 19 on a bus parked outside [...]
*The attorney for former Florida A&M University band director Julian White, fired following the recent death of a drum major from DeKalb County, said his client wants his job back and may seek legal action if he’s not reinstated, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Dr. White has been at the vanguard of implementing measures to eliminate [...]
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