“I feel that my son's future could be in jeopardy,” Donovan Crosby wrote to James Ammons in the e-mail, which is part of public records obtained jointly by The Associated Press and the Tallahassee Democrat.
Hundreds of pages of records show years of repeated warnings about brutal hazing passed without any serious response from the school's leadership until last November's beating death of drum major Robert Champion.
A staff member replied to the e-mail, so Crosby called the next day to talk to Ammons directly. Crosby said at first the president reassured him, then repeated the standard line that the school doesn't condone hazing.
