Julian White, the 71-year old former band director at Florida A&M University, says that he was a scapegoat for the recent hazing death of Robert Champion, a member of the band. White says that for the last 20 years, he’s warned the university of the dangers of hazing, and that those warnings went largely ignored.
White says that just two weeks before Champion’s death, he’d suspended 26 band members for hazing. Champion died on November 19, shortly after White had reported his actions to university officials.