Florida - Four A&M Students Are Charged With Hazing - NYTimes.com Pledges of a Florida A&M marching band club known as the Clones were punched or paddled while they played music during a hazing initiation, according to police records released Friday. Four band members were arrested and charged with hazing. The arrests were the latest fallout from a scandal that has shaken the university and its famed Marching 100 band since November, when a drum major died in what the authorities said was a hazing ritual. The Clones hazing took place in "three or four initiation meetings" that began around Sept. 1 in a house about a mile from campus. Five pledges were lined up and were "forced to exercise, play music, and were either punched, prepped (slapped with both hands on back) and/or paddled," the police said. The four students arrested were Denise Bailey, 22; Brandon Benson, 23; Hakeem Birch, 21; and Anthony Mingo, 22. They were each booked on a misdemeanor hazing charge and were released on bail this week.