SWITCH: Mobile | ePaper | Subscribe

Homes Rentals Jobs Autos Contests

Hazing

Initiations getting worse by cheerleaders

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 11:57am

OGDEN -- Ogden High School cheerleaders haven't always been welcomed to the squad with condiments being thrown at them while being called unprintable names. There were times when the initiation to the squad was as simple as a pool party and a cheer in the rotunda. But times have changed and the initiations have become increasingly worse, especially in the past few years.

Education, Cheerleaders, Hazing, Ogden High School, Utah Read more Comments

Police look into Ogden High hazing incident

Scott Schwebke, Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 11:38pm

OGDEN — Police are investigating the hazing incident that has resulted in the school suspension of nine Ogden High School senior cheerleaders.

The criminal investigation is being handled by a school resource officer and should be completed next week, Police Lt. Scott Conley said Tuesday.

Ogden High School administrators informed the resource officer of the hazing, Conley said.

Hazing, Ogden High School, Police, Utah Read more Comments

9 Ogden High senior cheerleaders suspended for hazing

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 7:18am

OGDEN — Nine Ogden High School senior cheerleaders have been suspended for hazing incoming cheerleaders. Several other students are also being investigated for possible involvement in the hazing and could also face suspension.

Crime, Cheerleaders, Hazing, Investigation, Ogden High School, Ogden School District, Suspension, Utah, Featured Read more Comments

College band death casts shadow on rich tradition

Christine Amario, Errin Haines The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 6:39pm

ATLANTA -- Four Florida A&M University students have been expelled for their role in what is believed to be a hazing death of a marching band member, the latest blemish for a rich and cherished institution at historically black colleges.

Hazing is part of the price band members pay at HBCUs to be part of a vaunted campus tradition that eclipses the prestige and popularity of the football team. Band members can endure anything from punching to paddling to being forced to drink copious amounts of water, all for a chance to perform in front of thousands of people at football games, parades and other high-profile events.

On HBCU campuses, band members are often given perks and treated like celebrities.

"If you were in the band, it was like you were a superstar," said Fontreia James, a piccolo player for three years in the marching band at Jackson State University in Mississippi. "People don't come to the games to see the football team. People come to see the band."

College Sports, Hazing, Marching band, Sports Read more Comments

College investigates hazing in marching band following death of drum major

Arelis R. Hernandez The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 4:39pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County Sheriff Jerry L. Demings said Tuesday that hazing was involved in the death of Florida A&M University student Robert Champion in Orlando last weekend.

Death, Hazing, Marching band, College, National Read more Comments

Montana school hires investigator in football hazing case

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:24pm

GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- An outside investigator has been hired to look into allegations that Great Falls High faculty knew about hazing in the football locker room but failed to stop it.

Hazing, High school, Prep football, Sports Read more Comments

Former student files hazing suit against Jewish fraternity

Sam Stanton The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Friday, November 11, 2011 - 9:35am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The communications major was on the dean's honor list at the University of California, Davis, a student in good health who liked working out at the gym and playing the guitar.

He also was a non-Jewish pledge of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, and that is where his troubles began in the fall of 2008, he claims in a newly filed federal lawsuit against the university.

Fraternity, Hazing, Jews, Lawsuit, Religion, College, National Read more Comments

2 Logan middle school students face hazing charges

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 10:06am

LOGAN -- Authorities say two 12-year-old middle school students have been suspended and charged in juvenile court with hazing a classmate.

Schools, Hazing, Utah Read more Comments

Ogden High disciplines six for hazing

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:11pm

OGDEN -- Six Ogden High School 12th-grade student-athletes have been disciplined following the March 23 hazing of a 9th grade student-athlete from Mount Ogden Junior High.

The incident took place in the high school's weight room, and involved three seniors, one of whom is a student body officer, coercing the younger student to push a ball across the gym floor with his nose. The victim was not physically harmed. Three other senior class students played a more peripheral role in the hazing, said OHS Principal Trevor Wilson.

Hazing, Ogden High School, Sports, Utah Read more Comments