Southern's band director asked for kickbacks
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number1
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Seriously doubt that. Even in the worst case scenario, the Jukebox will live on.
tigertrail
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Thaaaaat'ssss.....kinda what I said. Always a trail.
The remarkable advances in SSSDs made it possible to store everything & also apply advanced algorithms to search for specific 411. I digress.
tigertrail
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The Founder
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LOL....so who screwed who's sidechick? That's what this seems to be about. LOL
tsugraytiger
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You already know the BoomBox Classic will be addressing this on the field. The Sonic Boom is ruthless, nothing is off limits
bernard
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You ain't never lied! First the Boom can honor Haymer by playing LL Cool J's, I'm bad. Change the rap just for Haymer. Ocean of Soul, can you help me out here? Press play!
Then the Boom can end the skit with this song! Bad boy, bad boy, what'cha goona do, what'cha goona do, when the Boom come for you? The Boom can do a skit showing Haymer being handcuffed and arrested. lol
number1
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I seriously doubt your director would green light a personal attack against a colleague. That would be pretty unprecedented.
JayRob
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So attacking the character of a director's band isn't personal? You can't have it both ways. Haymer didn't seem to have a problem with it.
JR
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Well the game is in Baton Rouge this year. I say bring it on.
I blame Southern administrators. Haymer antics finally caught up with him, Haymer has too many character issues to be Band Director.
bernard
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Southern Band Director accused of asking for kickbacks had prior arrest for felony theft
March 14, 2018 5:51 PM in News Source: WBRZ By: Chris Nakamoto
BATON ROUGE- Southern Band Director Nathan Haymer is defending himself tonight, over a prior arrest he faced on a felony theft charge at a high school he worked for in Lake Charles as a band director.
Haymer reported over $2,000 was missing from the band department at Washington Marion High School. Auditors were called in and police reports indicate that number was more like $40,000. Investigators arrested Haymer and charged him with felony theft. Arrest documents show he was accused of taking $5,000. However, his brother, Niles Haymer said this was a bad investigation. He says his brother's case was never pursued, and there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
Information of Haymer's prior arrest comes the same week that a media company accused him of sending a text message asking for a kickback to have Southern University's world-famous band perform at an event.
Today, Haymer opened up outside the band offices on Southern University's Campus.
"Auditors to this day have yet to show me where they got that number from," Haymer said. "All I know is I was collecting money for jackets and went to Subway less than a mile away and money was missing from my desk."
Haymer was among three others arrested after the money went missing.
"It is a witchhunt," Haymer said. "Am I perfect, no. I have a past. But, I'm not that type of person. I have blemishes in my past. It's still on the internet."
Haymer said he was never terminated from the high school and was hired by Southern University right after.
Today, the District Attorney's Office in Calcasieu Parish said they couldn't independently verify that the charges were not pursued because they only keep paperwork on felonies for ten years.
Despite that text message, Haymer said he would never do that.
"I'm an honest person," Haymer said. "I have integrity. Southern pays me well enough and there's no need for me to get kickbacks from a fundraiser."
The contract for Octagon Media totaled almost $50,000. The media company says it had to pay refunds to the organizations that used them to schedule the marching band to perform at events.
Southern Band Director accused of asking for kickbacks had prior arrest for felony theft
March 14, 2018 5:51 PM in News Source: WBRZ By: Chris Nakamoto
BATON ROUGE- Southern Band Director Nathan Haymer is defending himself tonight, over a prior arrest he faced on a felony theft charge at a high school he worked for in Lake Charles as a band director.
Haymer reported over $2,000 was missing from the band department at Washington Marion High School. Auditors were called in and police reports indicate that number was more like $40,000. Investigators arrested Haymer and charged him with felony theft. Arrest documents show he was accused of taking $5,000. However, his brother, Niles Haymer said this was a bad investigation. He says his brother's case was never pursued, and there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
Information of Haymer's prior arrest comes the same week that a media company accused him of sending a text message asking for a kickback to have Southern University's world-famous band perform at an event.
Today, Haymer opened up outside the band offices on Southern University's Campus.
"Auditors to this day have yet to show me where they got that number from," Haymer said. "All I know is I was collecting money for jackets and went to Subway less than a mile away and money was missing from my desk."
Haymer was among three others arrested after the money went missing.
"It is a witchhunt," Haymer said. "Am I perfect, no. I have a past. But, I'm not that type of person. I have blemishes in my past. It's still on the internet."
Haymer said he was never terminated from the high school and was hired by Southern University right after.
Today, the District Attorney's Office in Calcasieu Parish said they couldn't independently verify that the charges were not pursued because they only keep paperwork on felonies for ten years.
Despite that text message, Haymer said he would never do that.
"I'm an honest person," Haymer said. "I have integrity. Southern pays me well enough and there's no need for me to get kickbacks from a fundraiser."
The contract for Octagon Media totaled almost $50,000. The media company says it had to pay refunds to the organizations that used them to schedule the marching band to perform at events.
Southern Band Director accused of asking for kickbacks had prior arrest for felony theft
JR
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Don't think they will able to use our jumbo-tron at Mumford. Both bands need to just concentrate on doing a field show with no gimmicks.
JR
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Actually SU administrators are in the lawsuit. Folks just trying to concentrate on Haymer. It wasn't like they didn't name other folks. I am sure the State of La will send their auditors next. If folks read the transcript. Dumas was there when all this started. So I am sure this is his camp way of getting back at SU and Haymer. Typical SU politics. Nothing new. Hell they tried to get Doc Greggs in the end. Luckily he had the Gov and folks in the state political arena on his side. Mr Jackson retired because of the politics and such. Tough position to have. Some folks will always think the BAND has gotten to big or too popular. Was no different than when I marched. Folks on that campus were jealous of Doc's power and the popularity of the band. Always trying to catch him slipping. It's a great job. But a dangerous one. You better be on your p's and q's.
bernard
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No Boom member was arrested and faced felony theft charges, can't say the same about Haymer. The keywords are "rap sheet", Haymer has one.
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JR
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No excuses for him. Just telling you what I know at SU. You can believe what you want. They knew about this in 2015. Meaning SU powers that be. This is not new to them. This is just one fired guy camp trying to get his nemesis fired as well. Payback. And it don't help if he got the ammunition to do so. The problem for him is the State is has gotten involved. Chris Brown is already gone from SU. But any remaining folks named in that lawsuit is probably grass. SU will make an example out them. You just choose to focus on Haymer not reading the entire deal. SU even found no wrong doing on their initial investigation in 2015. So what does that tell you? If he did do it. They knew he did it. Or he is innocent. I aint worried one way or the other. Politics is a mofo at my Alma Mater and if the right mofos in power ie Tony Clayton and others want him gone. He will be gone. If they want him to stay, he will stay. Same as they did with Dumas. He got fired but yet he roaming the sidelines at the BC like nothing happened.
Next man up at SU. We have a plethora of cats that can lead the Jukebox. One thing for sure, it will be another Juke alum to lead if he is let go. One thing about SU, we can whether scandal better than anybody. Its not a good thing. But we know how to bounce back like nothing happened.
If Haymer was at a PWC he would be terminated, effective immediately. HBCUs must stop condoning and accepting mediocrity. smh
number1
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Terminated without due process? And please, PWCs do much worse, or have we forgotten about the large number of folks that looked the other way at Penn State, Michigan State, Baylor, and Louisville?