Hazing
News
National anti-hazing hotline now available
A new toll-free national anti-hazing hotline - 1-888-NOT-HAZE - has been established. In the media section below, there is a link to a recent article about it in The DePauw.
A DePauw alumnus was instrumental in creating the hotline! Read more in this article from Aug. 30 and another from Sept. 17.
NCAA holds Hazing Prevention Summit
A Hazing Prevention Summit in conjunction with the NCAA annual convention during Winter Term provided an opportunity to convert concerns about the well-being of student-athletes into action.
The summit, on Jan. 10 in Nashville, Tenn., presented recent hazing research, suggested prevention strategies, and described useful resources for developing policies and programs on campuses, according to a recent article in The NCAA News.
See also:
Comments on the NCAA's official blog by Emily Pankow of Luther College, who is chair of the NCAA's Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
An Associated Press report from the summit that 80 percent of NCAA athletes are hazed, half involving alcohol, and two-thirds involving physical humiliation.
Pre-summit interview by Chronicle of Higher Education with summit speakers Hank Nuwer and Elizabeth Allan.
National hazing study conducted interviews here in November
Four researchers from a national study on college hazing visited DePauw Nov. 16 to interview student leaders and staff about student attitudes and behaviors regarding clubs, teams and activities at DePauw.
The interviews are part of the final phase of research for the study, Examining and Transforming Campus Hazing Cultures, being conducted through the University of Maine. About 20 students and five staff members were interviewed.
DePauw students selected at random participated in an on-line survey last spring of about 50 campuses in the second phase of the study. Based on that participation, DePauw was one of 15 campuses in the country chosen for the interview phase. Overall findings of the study should be available this spring. More information is available here.
Recent media coverage
Local
Silent Witness offers anonymous way to report campus crime - The DePauw, 9/18/07
(hazing is one of many concerns students have reported to Public Safety through Silent Witness)
Around Indiana
At IU:
Fraternity kicked off campus for hazing - The Indiana Daily Student, IU-Bloomington, 1/24/08 (activities reportedly included sleep deprivation, late night activities, “fighting fear” by intentionally scaring pledges and leading members to remote areas and making them walk back to campus- see also press release from the Indiana University dean of students.)
At Purdue:
Sorority placed on probation following hazing violations - The Exponent, Purdue, 12/21/07 (Sorority on probation through fall 2008 for hazing of new members; activities reportedly included having members perform physical activities, such as calisthenics, when they incorrectly answered questions about the sorority)
Dean of students places co-op on probation - The Exponent, Purdue, 11/8/07 (women's housing co-op on probation until fall 2008 for hazing of new members, which reportedly included depriving them of sleep, mandating attendance at social functions, taking them blindfolded to another student residence where they were told to perform demeaning activities)
Elsewhere
Trial date set in [Chico State] case - The Orion, Chico State (Cal.) University, 12/20/07 (judge rejects "civil compromise" attempt by 2 of 3 defendants to avoid criminal trial in fraternity hazing case; the two had settled their differences with with 13 allegedly hazed new members by paying each of them $1)
Rugby team suspended - Hazing one of three charges - The Daily Tar Heel, U. of North Carolina, 9/6/07 (charges include alcohol violations; investigation to take two weeks; team president says "there's absolutely no hazing with initiation into or continued membership") - UPDATE, article of 10/4/07: Hazing charges dropped, possibly because photos were misinterpreted; team was found guilty of violating Sports Club Council alcohol policy; resumed season in mid-October.
UW band marches to the beat of a new drum - The Daily Cardinal, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 9/5/07 (hazing and sexual misconduct charges arose from behavior on trip in September 2006; see University press release)
The Aftermath - Administrators' charges dropped - The Rider News, Rider College, Lawrenceville, N.J., 9/5/07 (grand jury had indicted 3 students and 2 administrators on felony charges of aggravated hazing, after fraternity's associate member died in April from acute alcohol poisoning)
(see also) Freshman in critical condition - 'Possible hazing incident' - The Rider News, Rider College, Lawrenceville, N.J., 3/30/07 (intoxicated freshman in intensive care after cardiac arrest following heavy alcohol use - police investigation underway - articles from 4/2/07 about student's death here)
Hazing linked to Cross death - The Daily Texan, UT-Austin, 8/24/07 (intoxicated freshman killed in fall from fifth-story balcony, Nov. 2006)
National Hazing Prevention Week held September 24-28
DePauw participated in National Hazing Prevention Week. Click here for a schedule of events.
