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White is fighting his dismissal, which is why he Nike Football Cleats submitted the documents to the school, including dozens of suspension letters for hazing over the last decade, and communications alerting university police.
“Our incidents are few, but nevertheless hazing and harassment continues to be a problem,” White wrote the then director of bands William P. Foster in 1989 after a hazing death involving a fraternity at Morehouse University. “It would be very difficult for the university and the band should someone become killed or hurt because of hazing.”
In the weeks before Champion’s death, White suspended 26 band members for hazing. On Nov. 17—just two days before Champion died—he sent a letter to alumni, saying while most of them were positive and encouraging of former band members, some “return and perpetuate the myth of various sectional names.”
“You should not return and look down on people who follow university regulations by not participating in sub-organizations,” White wrote. “This Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly is extremely important and I call on all alumni to assist the band and myself in eradicating all vestiges of hazing in the Marching `100’ band.”’
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