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  The fired director of Ohio State’s celebrated marching band is formally requesting his job back, citing alleged flaws in a university investigation as well as a positive performance review issued weeks before he was terminated. In a letter Thursday, 38-year-old Jonathan Waters asked the university’s board of trustees to act on the matter at […]

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  Ohio State University has fired its band director for allowing a deep culture of sexual harassment. Jonathan Waters, 38, has been director since 2012 and was assistant and then interim director for 10 years before that. An internal investigation revealed examples of abuse, including an annual midnight practice in which band members were expected […]

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  Members of a local drum band are ecstatic about attending a special event this weekend. The Pride of Glenville Marching Band is heading to Washington, D.C. They’ll participate in a modern-day version of 1963′s March on Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream Speech” during the march five decades […]

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The fired director of Florida A&M’s famed “Marching 100″ band said he repeatedly warned university leaders over two decades about the dangers of hazing and that he’s been made the scapegoat for a band member’s death in which the practice is suspected. Julian White, 71, said he suspended 26 band members for hazing two weeks […]

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The president of Florida A&M University decided Wednesday to dismiss the school’s longtime band director in the wake of last weekend’s hazing-linked death of a drum major in the school’s famed marching band, reports CNN. “The reason for this intended employment action is based upon your alleged misconduct and/or incompetence involving confirmed reports and allegations of […]