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Florida A&M University lacked procedures and internal controls to prevent the kind of hazing that has been blamed for the death of a student in the marching band a year ago, a state investigation has concluded. The Orlando Sentinel said that the report -- released Friday -- was "sharply critical" of the university. Among the findings: The university's police department didn't communicate with the office that dealt with student disciplinary cases. So most hazing allegations reported to the police never made their way to the officials who were in charge of student conduct issues. Further, nobody at the university tracked hazing complaints, the report found. The university's lack of anti-hazing procedures violated state regulations and state laws, the report said.
Larry Robinson, interim president at the university, said officials were reviewing the report. He stressed that the university was already working on many of the issues identified. "There are no new categories of issues we had not already come to grips with," he said.
