Posted on 11/07/2005 5:33:28 PM PST by pissant
The parent of a student at Alabama A&M University said Friday eight female marching band members were blindfolded and beaten with a wooden paddle in an alleged hazing incident directed by band section leaders.
Reggie and Carmen Moore of Fort Wayne, Ind., filed a report Friday with campus police alleging that their daughter was assaulted by upperclassmen.
A number of calls to several university officials and representatives for comment on the allegations were not returned.
Carmen Moore said four girls who play the flute and four who play the clarinet were called about 10 p.m. Monday and told to dress in white T-shirts and black sweat pants before reporting to a section leader's apartment where the alleged hazing took place, Carmen Moore said.
The Moores said their daughter called them Monday night injured and crying.
"Hazing is illegal, and my daughter was assaulted," said Reggie Moore, a police officer in Indiana. "I didn't bring her here to be subjected to that."
Loretta Robinson of Montgomery, another band parent, said Friday her daughter, a flutist, is under a doctor's care because of her injuries.
Robinson said her daughter told her the students were struck several times by at least 10 people. Some of the girls went to the infirmary to be treated for bruises, she said.
Robinson and the Moores said they are unsatisfied with school officials' response.
The band was suspended over the allegations, university officials announced Wednesday. But the suspension was lifted late Thursday, and the band will perform today when the Alabama A&M Bulldogs play Jackson State University.
"I'm very disappointed about the university's response to this situation," Robinson said. "They suspended the band for only one evening. It is a slap in the face to these kids that are hurting."
Some parents met Friday with Dr. Shirley Houser, the university's vice president of student affairs. Houser was not available for comment.
Moore said her daughter wanted to attend a historically African-American university and loved A&M.
"My daughter is telling me that there are about 50 freshmen enduring this hazing every single week," Moore said. "They are scared to talk about it, because they are told they will be punished if they tell."
Carmen Moore said she and her husband brought their van to Huntsville in case they have to move their daughter back home.
"We are not going to let her stay here if the university cannot guarantee her safety," she said.
So I'm in the RIGHT company.
Is that with Ron Howard, the 1950s flick?
Hehehe. No, have not been to 'Bama lately!
ahhh LOL
the wife made me watch Phantom of the Opera, so I am good until 2015
Poor soul.
nope that was American Graffiti
American Pie is about some teenager having sex with an apple pie,And his dad approving.
You are a left wing commie next to me, but I'll accept ya! ;o)
actually it wasn't that bad.
The women in it where HOT....
I'm hated at Thanksgiving and Christmas by all of my family because I am so FAR right so I have to be more right than you.. ;^)
LOL. I guess spanking chubby flute players is not your cup of tea?
As a Father of a daughter I can tell you without equivocation that any two-bit sh8heel that did this to my daughter would soon find the business end of my screen name lodged up his left nostril as an entre to some hard-knuckled "schooling". And I could give a damn about the prison term; it's my daughter I'm talking about, here, and I'll transcend any inaction on the part of a comatose legal system to properly effect her just defense. The needs of the one outweigh the complacency of the many.
Are we clear on that, Mister?
My brother was in a frat at Syracuse,and the beer flowed. They had a walk in for the kegs. Same with my sisters sorority at Umass.
I hope so. to have to sit thru that strangled cat music.
BTW, the original Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera was quite good.
Perhaps, but I have to sit in the back yard by myself chewing on the turkey carcass.
Sorry, I'm still stuck on the headline. Coed?
COED? What is this, 1952? I can't believe that word is still in use.
yeah...
He isn't a big drinker so it doesn't surprise me...
I, on the other hand, tend to drink like a fish :)
strangled cat music?
LOL
I like that term. Nostalgia and all.
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