May 26 2012 - West Bloomfield drivers top field in bus competition
WATERFORD TWP. — Two West Bloomfield bus drivers took first and second place in the 2012 School Bus Driving Championship — better known as the “Roadeo" in which 35 school bus drivers from eight Oakland County school districts competed in the Oakland Schools intermediate district parking lot. |
May 26 2012 - Big East Baseball Tournament | Louisville hoping for another 'dog pile'
The University of Louisville baseball team had its chance to celebrate winning a share of its third Big East Conference title in four years on Sunday. The Cardinals have a tradition of doing a 'dog pile' to celebrate a conference championship, and they did that on the bus trip home from Pittsburgh when they heard St.John's had lost to Seton Hall, giving UofL a first-place tie with the Red Storm. |
May 25 2012 - Band mates say FAMU victim volunteered to be hazed
Robert Champion was known for his opposition to the hazing rampant in the Florida A&M University marching band, but he was vying to be lead drum major and wanted the respect he could earn by enduring a brutal ritual known as "crossing over." With chances for initiation ending with the football season, fellow band members say, Champion agreed to run through a bus lined with people kicking and ... |
May 25 2012 - Arrests Continue in Champion Hazing Case
FAMU Marching 100 May 03, 2012 | WMFE - Three people are now in custody charged in the hazing-related death of a Florida A&M University band drum major. 26-year-old Robert Champion died after being beaten in a hazing ritual aboard the band's chartered bus in Orlando in November. Almost six months after Champion died, charges have been filed against 13 people in connection with his death. The ... |
May 25 2012 - New Documents Describe Brutal Hazing That Killed FAMU Drum Major
Robert Champion agreed to go into Bus C because he was vying for the top job at Florida A&M University's Marching 100 band and thought it would impress his band mates. But that hazing ritual — a relentless, brutal beating — would cost him his life. That's the picture painted by a cache of new documents released today in Florida. The New York Times reports: |
May 25 2012 - FAMU fatal hazing: Blow by blow
Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion walked into the darkness of Bus C in a parking lot in Orlando, Florida, last fall in the hope of gaining respect from his fellow band members. It was his time to "cross-over." Hours later, he died. |
May 25 2012 - Witnesses detail fatal FAMU beating
Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion walked into the darkness of Bus C in a parking lot in Orlando, Florida, last fall in the hope of gaining respect from his fellow band members. |
May 24 2012 - Slain Florida marching band student asked for hazing: defendant
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida college marching band member killed in a brutal 2011 hazing wanted to submit to the ritual and received permission from the head drum major to participate on the night he died, according to testimony released by prosecutors on Wednesday. Robert Champion, 26, was beaten to death on board Bus C, part of a fleet of 11 buses and a limousine that ferried the ... |
May 24 2012 - Inside the Bus During Fla. Drum Major's Fatal Hazing
Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion endured a brutal pummeling down the aisle of a pitch black bus that rocked from the force of the violence inside. He fought through a gauntlet of "friends" and band mates who used their fists, feet, straps and sticks to pound him unconsciousness. It was part of a culture that considers repeated "hot seat" beatings and the final "crossing over" gauntlet that ... |
May 24 2012 - Documents describe fatal hazing ritual at Florida A&M
MIAMI -- Hoping to earn the respect of his band mates, Robert Champion agreed to enter Bus C in an Orlando, Fla., parking lot one evening last fall and walk to the back in a common Florida A&M University hazing ritual -- one that cost him his life, according to documents released Wednesday, May 23, by prosecutors. |
May 24 2012 - Inside the Bus During the Fatal Florida A&M Hazing
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. |
May 24 2012 - Inside Bus C: FAMU drum major's hazing
Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion walked into the darkness of Bus C in a parking lot in Orlando, Florida, last fall in the hope of gaining respect from his fellow band members. It was his time to "cross-over." Hours later, he died. |
May 24 2012 - Evidence: Drum Major Beaten to Death with Sticks and Mallets
May 23, 2012 | WMFE - FAMU drum major Robert Champion was beaten to death with fists, drum sticks and drum mallets on the band's bus last November. That's part of the evidence contained in more than 2,000 pages of documents released today by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office. [Image: Robert Champion] One of the defendants, head drum major Jonathan Boyce, says Champion had asked ... |
May 24 2012 - Interviews detail harrowing rites for Marching 100 members on night of Champion's death
By Jennifer Portman Democrat senior writer -- The November weekend of the Florida Classic football game in Orlando, six members of Florida A&M's famed Marching 100 "crossed Bus C" — voluntarily taking off their shirts to be beaten by fellow band members as they fought in the dark to reach the back of a parked bus as part of a years-long tradition to earn respect. |
May 24 2012 - Inside the Bus During FAMU's Fatal Hazing
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. |
May 22 2012 - Hoping For Breakthrough
The team bus left Oklahoma Baptist Monday, taking 33 athletes to the NAIA Track and Field Championships in Marion, Ind., The competition will be held Thursday and Friday. |
May 22 2012 - Alabama fan pleads not guilty to sex charges
A video that went viral on the Internet appeared to show someone in a University of Alabama jacket abusing an unconscious Louisiana State University fan after Alabama beat LSU for the BCS football championship on Jan. 9. |
May 22 2012 - If FAMU loses hazing suit, law may limit damage award
With every troubling new revelation about Florida A&M University's Marching 100, the pending civil case against FAMU seems to grow stronger for the parents of Robert Champion, the drum major who was hazed to death on a charter bus in Orlando. |
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