Hearing Set in JSU Band Hazing Allegations


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jsudiva04 said:
and I want my money for them goggles....I needs my money!!! lol::lol:
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OooWee, When I say: I WANTZ MY MONIES FOR THEM GOGGLES TOO! :upset:

I mean, I was buying rain boots, submarines, floats, ponchos, life jackets... etc, all b/c he claim it was going to FLOOD at that game. :shame:

Turned out to be 90degrees and SUNNY as ever. :lmao:
 
I don’t like the way JSU’s President is handling the hazing allegations. No one is pressing charging, case closed. Mason is only bringing negative publicity to the university. :shame:
 
Tiger G said:
I don’t like the way JSU’s President is handling the hazing allegations. No one is pressing charging, case closed. Mason is only bringing negative publicity to the university. :shame:
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You can't be serious :lol:

You must have been at the "gas station"... lol
B/C you talking that bullshhhhh
 
Hazing: JSU's hard line is appropriate

Hazing: JSU's hard line is appropriate

September 29, 2009

The decision of Jackson State University president Ronald Mason and his administration to take a hard line on hazing allegations involving the JSU marching band is a wise and courageous one.


Too often, reports of the illegal or ill-advised off-field activities of scholarship athletes and members of university marching bands or other extra-curricular groups are ignored. That fact gives rise to the notion that hazing among band members is acceptable because no one pays attention to the behavior.

Mason and the JSU administration announced last week that the "Sonic Boom" would not perform in the Battle of the Bands at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. That decision led to complaints and disgruntled fans at the event, but it was a decision that should be greeted with respect.

JSU's band program has had a hazing problem for years.

All band members were required to participate in hazing education sessions following revelations of hazing in 2007. No individuals were disciplined.

Just two years later, at least 45 members of the JSU band may face expulsion and criminal charges after being accused of hazing about 22 underclassmen.

Those band members - all members of the JSU percussion section - have been suspended from the band indefinitely and await the outcome of JSU judicial council hearings that are pending.

One of the alleged victims suffered a fractured shoulder - but that victim is apparently not pressing charges in the case.

What is most distressing in this story is the fact that whether fueled by self-discipline or by fear, there is a clear "code of silence" being enforced that is keeping victims and the accused from coming forward with the information necessary to rid the JSU band program of hazing. More to the point, it is this misguided code of silence that allows hazing to be perpetuated as upperclassmen pass on the alleged paddlings and other indignities to each successive new group of underclassmen.

The ability of a young musician to be accepted into a state-supported university's marching band should not be predicated on the ability of that young person to submit to corporal punishment, paddlings, humiliation or other so-called "rites of passage."

It would be far more worthwhile for JSU to suspend its marching band program altogether for the rest of the 2009 season if the group cannot function without the influence of such degrading, destructive behavior.

Public universities don't "have" to have a marching band. Mason and his administrative team are wise to remind the JSU band and their alumni fans of that fact.

Students have a right to be safe from hazing in college programs.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909290322
 
kendrick said:
Good. I hope those asshats get what they deserve.
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did you just make that word up?

Shut the heyal up...okay...we get it...you wanted to do an article on the Boom when you were in Undergrad and nobody would talk to you!! We know...if you had done that article you would have used it to actually accomplish something in life and become a good reporter!!

What you want....an apology?

The Boom doesn't fool with fake ass reporters!!

Daymn...move on and get the fugg over it!!
 



Tiger G said:
I don’t like the way JSU’s President is handling the hazing allegations. No one is pressing charging, case closed. Mason is only bringing negative publicity to the university. :shame:
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Get a grip.

The hazing incident is what brought negative publicity to the university.

Dr. Mason has to handle this with a hard line. It's time. It is the injured student's choice not to press charges. Most likely this would be done for those students charged with the crime and the rest of WT could go on. From where I sit the problem is that the students involved (including the injured party) have not quite grasped that playing in the Boom is a privilege to respresent the university that comes with the responsibility of making that representation in the most positive light possible. Dr. Mason is charged with protecting and enhancing the reputation of the university. In this case the students have given him little choice in getting his job done.

I would not want to have to turn over my friends for an incident gone bad either. What they have to understand is that in not doing so they have exposed the entire university.
 
mustardmanSU_04 said:
No REAL consequences came of that yet......
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Daymn...what do you feel is a REAL consequence? I mean...folks being put in the hospital isn't a REAL enough consequence of their actions yet? Regardless if everyone agreed to it or regardless if the outcome was they got arrested!

I guess I'm a punk! LMAO b/c if I saw someone going to the hospital over some shyt I did to them, in the intensive care unit, my name all in the news so I've embarrassed my family, I could possibly go to JAIL...yeah, this new school hard as heyal!!! :lol::lol:

Man...that shyt is REAL enough for me!!

Just like with JSU...if someone really fractured their collar bone...shyt wasn't being done right and it's gone too far! Real enough for me!

I guess you have to see the FINAL consequences/outcome for that shyt to be real to you huh? If a mofo don't get suspended or go to jail...just keep what you doing huh!?!

SUtrp96 said:
All one can hope is the kids have good lawyers on their side...
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:tup:

SUtrp96 said:
ASSHATS.....haha I like that...

Casey you're an ASSHAT......
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:fart:
ASSHAT! ASSHAT!!

:lol::lol:
 
southsuburbs said:
Daymn...what do you feel is a REAL consequence? I mean...folks being put in the hospital isn't a REAL enough consequence of their actions yet? Regardless if everyone agreed to it or regardless if the outcome was they got arrested!

I guess I'm a punk! LMAO b/c if I saw someone going to the hospital over some shyt I did to them, in the intensive care unit, my name all in the news so I've embarrassed my family, I could possibly go to JAIL...yeah, this new school hard as heyal!!! :lol::lol:

Man...that shyt is REAL enough for me!!

Just like with JSU...if someone really fractured their collar bone...shyt wasn't being done right and it's gone too far! Real enough for me!

I guess you have to see the FINAL consequences/outcome for that shyt to be real to you huh? If a mofo don't get suspended or go to jail...just keep what you doing huh!?!



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:fart:
ASSHAT! ASSHAT!!

:lol::lol:
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:lol::lol: They lived tho...no consequences. :shame:
 
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