anti hazing 4.2

HAZING KILLS 163 DEATHS TO DATE!

It is only by having information about hazing activities that officials charged with safeguarding the safety of students can take the necessary steps to prevent, intervene, or investigate hazing activities that put the safety and well-being of students at risk and deal appropriately with the alleged hazers.

1. Why it is important to report hazing activities?

1. Why it is important to report hazing activities?

Therefore, it is vitally important for anyone, students and others, who has knowledge about planned, ongoing, or recent hazing activities to promptly report those activities to university safety officers or to local law enforcement officials.

2. Who is aware of hazing and can report it?

Allan and Madden [4.2A] reported in their 2008 study of hazing that there are public aspects to student hazing which permit coaches, organization advisors, student peers, family, and alumni to be aware of hazing activities


Even 25% of the hazing behaviors in this study occurred on-campus in a public space. These findings alone suggest that the number of persons who can report hazing activities can be extensive and likely includes persons who know that acts of hazing are prohibited.


In addition, in more than half of the hazing incidents, a member of the offending group posts pictures on a public web space. In general then, it is likely that hazing incidents go unreported by members of the campus community who are aware of these prohibited activities.

3. Why persons who have knowledge about hazing do not

report it?The Allan and Madden study also found that only 5% of the students who considered themselves to have been hazed reported the incidents to university officials. The prominent reasons students gave for not reporting being hazed include the following:

1. not wanting to get their group or team in trouble,

2. fear of retaliation from the team or group,

3. and fear of being ostracized by the team or group.


report it?These reasons do not explain why other persons not in the inner circle of the group such as coaches, advisors, friends, alumni, and even parents do not report known hazing activities. It is clear that for the majority of hazing observers there is a conflict between the desire not to get involved and the desire to help curb hazing behaviors that are harming students and their universities.


report it?

There is clearly a need to promote the use of hazing reporting systems that scrupulously guard the identity of the persons who would report hazing were it not for their fear of retaliation or ostracism.

4. How to report hazing without the risk of retaliation

Two methods of reporting hazing will be briefly discussed here, general methods and university specific methods. An example of a general method of reporting hazing is the ANTIHAZE National Hazing Hotline [4.2B]. The ANTIHAZE Hotline was design to enable students and others to report planned, active, and recent hazing activities while providing maximum protection protecting the identity of the reporter.


This hotline operates independently of any university and dispatches hazing alerts, alarms, and reports to the mobile telephones and email inboxes of designated hazing responders at the universities involved. This method has enabled coaches and students to report hazing activities to campus officials, local law enforcement, and national Greek letter organizations, while protecting the identities of the persons making the hazing reports.


The university specific methods of reporting hazing have primarily utilized websites that allow students and others to anonymously submit information regarding hazing incidents. University specific methods of reporting hazing also include university hotlines, email addresses to receive hazing reports, and websites at which hazing reports can be posted.


Both general and university specific methods of reporting hazing currently in operation provide ways of reporting hazing activities that safeguard the identities of the individuals who are reporting the hazing. Each student who encounters hazing as a bystander or hazee is encouraged to use one of these “identity-secure” methods to report the hazing activities to university officials.


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The Bottom Line:

Be a Knight life guard. Report hazing

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HAZING KILLS 163 DEATHS TO DATE!