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Six Southern U. Students Arrested After Alleged Hazing Ritual

December 3, 2008 RSS Feed Print

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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Bra, dats dirty. how r u gonna do that to someone. i bet that they wouldn`t hit me like that.

Justin Niblock of SC 4:41PM February 08, 2011

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

"LURCH" FALL 88 BARITONE SECTION SOUTHERN U of LA 3:43PM July 09, 2009

im all for hazing too,but its a difference between a beating and physical trainig i mean you can only go so far.

matthew moore Jackson -----High School cymbal section leader of LA 6:27AM May 12, 2009

Six Southern U. Students Arrested After Alleged Hazing Ritual

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