Published reports liken Burning Spear to other secretive campus organizations such as the University of Florida's Florida Blue Key, Yale's Skull & Bones University of Virginia's Seven Society and The Machine at the University of Alabama.īurning Spear has over 300 members and sponsors the annual Clock and Seal banquet recognition during homecoming week, an event attracting FSU administrators and a Who’s Who of alumni, according to the organization's website. Walker contends the Pierre-Brown ticket, which garnered 75 percent of the vote to Walker-Ornstein’s 25 percent, benefited from the support of Burning Spear, an organization formed on campus in 1993 by noted civil rights attorney Ben Crump and two others initially to promote the Charlie Ward for Heisman Trophy campaign.īut since then, Burning Spear, whose undergraduate and graduate membership and selection process is closely guarded, has become a formidable force on campus, including in student government, the FSU Student Foundation and other organizations. John Walker, who along with vice presidential running-mate Randy Ornstein, campaigned as an independent, was soundly defeated by the Unite Party candidates Stacey Pierre, president, and, Brandon Brown, vice president.
A losing Florida State University student government presidential candidate blames his recent poor electoral showing on the behind-the-scenes influence of Burning Spear, a secretive group whose past and present members are among the city's political elite.
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