With FAMU’s internationally known “Marching 100” band suspended for an indefinite period and its image tarnished, presidents, student life officials and band directors at many schools say they are taking new steps to reinforce and strengthen their anti-hazing policies. Hazing on college campuses is a decades-old physical discipline encounter where the rules are set by those administering initiation rites into campus organizations. Hazing has been the target of repeated discipline efforts over the years that have been undermined by a code of silence among participants.
