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Diminishing the Negative Impact of Hazing on our Colleges and Universities

CSIE CONSULTING, LLC1637 Metropolitan Blvd. Suite A – 1

Tallahassee, Florida 32308June 29, 2012

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First, the bad news

1. According to Dr. Susan Lipkins, “Over the past ten years, hazing has become more violent, more humiliating, and more sexual. Hazing is a virus that has attacked our youth and is spreading quickly.”

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First, the bad news:

Claims are being made that hazing is more prevalent at HBCUs

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First the bad news:

A recent editorial from the HBCU Digest assert that the financial cost that hazing causes to your school can impede its growth for decades, if not generations. … The social capital cost lost by such an incident can be simply immeasurable on a schools brand.

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Now, some good news

Coalitions and taskforces currently being formed will heighten awareness on our campuses about the consequences of hazing.

For example, the Anti-hazing Coalition led by Dr. Jimmy

Hammock, International President of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

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Now, some good news

The launching of the new ANTIHAZE National Hazing Hotline providing students, parents, faculty and staff, and other stakeholders a “tool” that they can use to deter hazing.

How is this hotline different from other hazing hotlines that are operational?

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Some  features of the ANTIHAZE Hazing Hotline 

The ANTIHAZE Hazing Hotline that is available to any student, parent, or other person who chooses to use it to give notice about hazing activities to the appropriate officials at any university.  This scope of service makes ANTIHAZE a national hazing hotline, perhaps the first truly national hazing hotline.  

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Some  features of the ANTIHAZE Hazing Hotline 1. Hotline calls from college students or stakeholders

anywhere in America are promptly forwarded  to the appropriate officials at the university which they  specify during their call;

2. Confidential Hazing Alarm automated interviews relative to active   hazing are recorded;

3. Confidential Hazing Alert automated interviews relative to planned  hazing are recorded;

4. Confidential Hazing Reporting automated interviews relative to recent hazing incidents are recorded;

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Some  features of the ANTIHAZE Hazing Hotline 

5. Each Hazing Notices recorded on the Hotline can be immediately   forwarded by email or text messages to responders facilitating a rapid   response;

6. Confirmation information is requested from each caller in an effort     to authenticate supplement the information given in each call;

7. The identity of callers to the ANTIHAZE Hotline is protected, minimizing the risk of retaliation against callers or callers being ostracized.

These features should combine to make the ANTIHAZE Hazing Hotline a highly effective hazing deterrent in the near future as student use of the hotline expands.

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Potential Benefits of the ANTIHAZE Hotline

• Benefits for students• Benefits for parents• Benefits for student organizations• Benefits for colleges and universities

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What every collegian should know and do:

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Even more good news

1. Assessment of current anti-hazing program effectiveness;

2. Orientation, education, and engagement of stakeholders;

3. Hazing investigation procedures and planning;

4. Adjudication and disciplinary procedures and outcomes.

The ANTIHAZE Deterrence Program model incorporates a number of the recommendations from the Allan-Madden study while suggesting  a common sense standard  for each of ten elements of this anti-hazing program model.  The ten elements included in the program model include both are not limited to:

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Some good news

Potential Benefits of the ANTIHAZE Hazing Deterrence Program

• Benefits for students• Benefits for parents• Benefits for student organizations• Benefits for colleges and universities

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Some surprising facts about hazing suggest some next steps in efforts to deter hazing:

• Providing Ethics, Decision Making, and Critical Thinking workshops for students.

• Use of hazingsolutions.net blog maintained by CSIE Consulting.

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Third, Possible next steps …

Surprising facts about hazing suggest some

next steps continued:

• Vigorous and sustained anti-hazing radio, newspaper, and TV media campaigns on both HBCU and majority campuses.

• Use of hazingsolutions.net blog maintained by CSIE Consulting.

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Thank you for you attention and questions.

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Introduction of Speaker

I am Malcolm Barnes who is applying to combating hazing all he has learned as

1. As a fraternity man here at JSU once upon at time

2. As first director of institutional research at JSU

3. As the husband of a Zeta Phi Beta Sorority woman

4. As a father of two sons who are fraternity men

5. As the Chief Information Officer of the Florida Department of Education

6. As Chairman of the Computer Information Systems at Florida A&M University

7. As a partner in a female owned business.