A&M University fires band director after hazing incident

A&M University in Florida announced today that they will be firing band director Dr. Julian White after drum major Robert Champion died during a hazing incident on Saturday.

From 11alive.com:

Champion, 26, a graduate of Southwest DeKalb High School, died following the Florida Classic football game in Orlando last Saturday.

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said he suspects hazing is involved in Champion's death. In Florida, hazing is a third degree felony. Sheriff Demings said charges could be forthcoming.

This is a very sad story all around, but we can't help but wonder: how does a 26 year old man die in a college hazing incident? I mean isn't he a little old to be one of the guys getting hazed? At the very least shouldn't he be one of the guys doing the hazing?

Cover Band Fail

This video is just great. We have what looks to be a cover band playing in a small club. They're about to start playing Bon Jovi's "You give love a bad name" song from '86 when all the sudden the guitarist slams his guitar down and storms off stage. The most amusing part of it is the complete dead silence in the club after the guitarist throws his guitar down. If anyone has any information on this video like what band this is, what city, and the back story behind this outburst please let us know!



We couldn't help but notice that the woman at the end there yelling "you fucking asshole!" sounds eerily similar to the "cheap shot motherfucker" woman in the Danzig gets owned video. Same lady?

Update: The band in this footage is Winters Mistress, this show was on Oct. 27 where they were opening up for Stephen Pearcy (Ratt) at the Reverb Club in Reading, PA.

The drama continues on their facebook page:



We're going to side with guitarist Jim Reddig on this one, at least he's entertaining.