Six Southern U. Students Arrested After Alleged Hazing Ritual
Police have arrested six Southern University students in connection with a ritual that left two marching band members hospitalized, the Advocate reports. The November 25 incident allegedly involved band members who were repeatedly beaten with a two-by-four as initiation into the marching band's unofficial French horn fraternity—"Mellow Phi Fellow."
According to the police report, the victims were blindfolded, stripped of their shirts, doused with water, and struck numerous times with open hands. They then allegedly were beaten with the wooden plank. A third victim was not hospitalized but reported being struck more than 50 times by the board.
Those arrested Tuesday have been accused of "ritualistic torture" and charged with aggravated second-degree battery and ritualistic acts. Police anticipate a seventh arrest. The Advocate's story offers no comments from any of the arrested students.
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CHOICES
EVERYBODY HAS CHOICES IN LIFE AND THEY CHOSE TO LET IT GO THAT FAR AND PPL KEEP SAYING HAZED TO GET IN THE BAND THAT WASNT TO GET IN THE BAND THAT WAS TO GET LETTERS FOR MELLOW PHI FELLOW GET IT STRAIGHT STAY FOCUSED THEY WOULD HAVE STILL BEEN MELLOPHONE PLAYERS AND IN THE BAND IF THEY CHOSE TO WALK OUT WHEN THE 2X4 WAS FIRST INTRODUCED THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
JUST LIKE GUYS ARE IN THE BAND BUT HAVENT PLEDGED THE NATIONAL BAND FRATERNITY KAPPA KAPPA PSI ME FOR INSTANCE NOBODY SHOWS ME ANY LESS LOVE BECAUSE IM NOT PSI BUT BECAUSE I WAS IN THE BAND AND WAS A BEAST ON MY HORN THEY SHOWED LOVE THEN AND THEY STILL SHOW LOVE 20 YEARS LATER.
AND LIKE MY FAM SAID IN ANOTHER REPLY KIDS NOWADAYS DONT HAVE ANYBODY TO LOOK UP TO SO THEY SEEK ACCEPTANCE WHERE THEY CAN AND AS EVIDENCED BY THIS INCIDENT WILL GO THRU EXTREME MEASURES TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE WHICH IN THE END IS THEIR CHOICE
i kno how it goes
im all for hazing too,but its a difference between a beating and physical trainig i mean you can only go so far.
you gotta be kidding me
OMG!you mean to tell me that there are some ppl in this world that think this is "okay"?i know one of the band members and for him to let this be done to him he really did want to be part of the band cuz to me its crazy and for those so call band leaders its really messed up for them to even think that its cool or would make them seem like they are better than any one else cuz in my eyes they are really stupid and they should get wat ever is coming to them and i mean that cuz no one should be beat wuth a 2-by-4 that jus shows how smart they really are cuz im sure they wasn't beat like that if they were even beat all. but you have to be a sick person to think that these boys wanted to be beatin to the point that they had to put in the hospital! ITS SICKIN SO MANY WAYS!!!!
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