Student leaders at Florida A&M University signed a pledge Monday night to stand against hazing and to rid the nation’s largest historically-black university of a culture that claimed the life one of the drum majors in its famed Marching 100 band.
Student Government Association President Breyon Love said it was time for the students to do something together in response to the death of Robert Champion Jr., who died on Nov. 19, following the band’s performance in Orlando at the Florida Classic featuring FAMU and Bethune-Cookman University. The 26-year-old from the suburbs of Atlanta was said to have gone through a ritual called “Crossing the C Bus” prior to his death.
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