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The parents of former Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion are livid about the response that the university made to the lawsuit that was filed after his death. Champion was killed during a hazing ritual that took place during a school bus trip to Orlando, and the school says that it is not responsible for what happened to him.
Champion’s parents feel that the university is not willing to hold itself accountable for the rampant culture of hazing on the campus, which some believe ends up pressuring students to engage in rituals that can lead to serious injury, or even death.
Champion’s parents, Pam and Robert, held a press conference in Atlanta, during which they expressed their extreme disappointment in the school’s behavior. The school has asked the judge to throw the case out of court, for they argue that they were not to blame for what happened.
Christ Chestnut, the attorney representing the Champion family, says that student safety is the primary issue in the case. There are grave concerns that hazing culture is so deeply embedded in the culture of many campuses that it’s going to be difficult to eliminate. Several students were arrested after Champion’s death and face time in prison if convicted. There are also allegations that the university had been consistently warned about the hazing problem in the past, but chose to ignore the evidence.
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big annie
September 16, 2012 at 1:59 pm
FAMU may talk all that S$%^ right now, but they might as well pull out their d**n checkbook. They can right the check now or later…but they gonna write one.
Onesilverbac
September 15, 2012 at 10:29 am
It’s about keeping any settlement as small as possible. Any one would say the same thing, I’m not responsible for the action of the students.
me112233
September 14, 2012 at 11:58 pm
You see, even when black folks are the big dogs running the institution, they will deny any responsiblity for anything. Sure, they enjoyed taking credit when the FAMU band got praises for putting on a good show; but when that same FAMU band made a big pile of sh*t in the middle of the field, the same administrators don’t want anything to do with them.
Well, I guess I can’t blame them. I mean, who want’s to be tied to a sick group of black people? Even if you are another black people? When will black people stand up and denounce bad bahavior, even when the guilty people are all black?
If the facts had only been changed slightly, and we rolled a few miles down the road to Florida State, and the same Robert Champion happened to be the drum major there, and a band full of mostly white students hazed him to death by beating him . . . how many black folks would stand for it? How many black folks would refuse to accept the “it ain’t our fault” excuse from the Florida State administration? I bet there would be literal riots in the streets if it had been a “white” university involved.
Zuuumie
September 14, 2012 at 7:02 pm
I’ll have to run this by an Atty.
The school may more likely have “Limited Liability”, but no liability or responsibility?
Enpa luule!
It was during the time tall student and Staff were on route to a school function. Just because those with the responsibility of Students failed to paid monitors, coaches or take the allow themselves to become aware of what is going on around them w/i a very limited area which is what they are responsible for whether the Students are minors or young adults, esp. when this University and others, are and have been well aware of the on-going problem with “Hazing.”
How difficult would this have really been to observe, check, monitor, and aware of on a bus that’s about 9 ft. wide and about 45 ft. long? And I’m sure this did not happen with complete silence, or elevated levels of voices and other noise from of other students as this incident occurred.
No one is absolutely excluded from any and all Liability.