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A&M band coeds tell of paddling
huntesville times ^ | 11/5/05 | dave holden

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.


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To: HKMk23
Are we clear on that, Mister?

no. Could you repeat it?
61 posted on 11/07/2005 6:20:54 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: pissant

Spank it! Spank it REAL good! /s


62 posted on 11/07/2005 6:22:29 PM PST by Whitewasher (Would u like America to be a goat nation in the millennium to come? Keep pushing the "Roadmap" bull!)
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To: HKMk23

I like you...AMEN to all you said

why can't we have more fathers like you ;)


63 posted on 11/07/2005 6:22:55 PM PST by PaulaB
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To: Whitewasher; pissant

64 posted on 11/07/2005 6:24:52 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: MikeinIraq

To the untrained ear, yes!


65 posted on 11/07/2005 6:26:09 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Awww...you old softy. /s


67 posted on 11/07/2005 6:26:30 PM PST by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: Whitewasher

So now we know why they have batons in marching bands.


68 posted on 11/07/2005 6:26:56 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

LOL

yeah I guess so...

Hey I found your picture in #64....


69 posted on 11/07/2005 6:27:37 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: MikeinIraq

Hey, he has a Waterbuffalo hat on. Fred and Barney were members, if I recall.


70 posted on 11/07/2005 6:27:59 PM PST by pissant
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To: Motherbear

yep...big time...

I see tears and everything there....


71 posted on 11/07/2005 6:28:15 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: MikeinIraq

As often as you like. Scroll up.


72 posted on 11/07/2005 6:28:37 PM PST by HKMk23 (FOR SALE: French Army standard issue infantry rifles. Dropped once. Never fired.)
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To: coop71

Old, anyway! ;o)


73 posted on 11/07/2005 6:28:53 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

LOL

I was looking for the scene in Animal House where Kevin Bacon gets hazed...but I couldn't find anything....


74 posted on 11/07/2005 6:28:58 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: HKMk23

negative


75 posted on 11/07/2005 6:29:09 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: pissant

LOL

Percussion section has a whole new meaning.


76 posted on 11/07/2005 6:29:42 PM PST by Whitewasher (Would u like America to be a goat nation in the millennium to come? Keep pushing the "Roadmap" bull!)
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To: MikeinIraq

Oh, NOOOO! LOL

"Thank you ma'am, may PLEASE have ANOTHER!"


77 posted on 11/07/2005 6:31:04 PM PST by Whitewasher (Would u like America to be a goat nation in the millennium to come? Keep pushing the "Roadmap" bull!)
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To: pissant
" It is a slap in the face to these kids that are hurting."

In that case, the other band members were using the paddle incorrectly. I can understand the girls' consternation.

78 posted on 11/07/2005 6:31:20 PM PST by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: MikeinIraq

Hey, what are you doing stirring up controvesy and arguiing with people on a innocent spanking thread? LOL


79 posted on 11/07/2005 6:32:56 PM PST by pissant
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To: Whitewasher

LOL yep


80 posted on 11/07/2005 6:32:56 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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