FAMU band hazing goes way back, reports say former victim feared it would happen again.
November 19, 2001
The Florida Times-Union
By Thomas B. PfankuchTALLAHASSEE — Clarinet player Ivery Luckey just wanted to march on a football field with one of the nation’s most prominent bands, the Marching 100 from Florida A&M University.
He knew it would take hard work, practice and dedication.
But Luckey eventually found out what it really took a trip through a gauntlet in which he was severely beaten by a group of established clarinet players.
Luckey went through with it and says he was struck 300 times by his fellow performers during a 1998 hazing. That incident resulted in the suspension of 20 members from the band, a lawsuit filed by Luckey against the state Board of Regents and injuries that Luckey says led to several weeks in the hospital and permanent physical and emotional scars.
