FAMU to appoint hazing czar, strengthen eligibility monitoring for band

FAMU President James H. Ammons will present a number of long-term anti-hazing recommendations to the Board of Trustees next week. His plans include the appointment of a senior administrative official who will dedicate his/her full-time attention to the campus’ hazing problem.

“We’ll have someone like a hazing czar, if you will, who will monitor the student organizations on the campus,” Ammons said.

Ammons says that the university will also implement additional controls to ensure that every member of the Marching 100 is a currently-enrolled student in good standing.

“We think that it’s important for us to have a compliance officer to deal with some of the issues we have around non-students performing in the band to ensure that everyone is properly enrolled,” Ammons said. “That they are making sufficient academic progress.”