Hazing Prevention:
It's Everyone's Responsibility
-Click here to ULM Hazing Prevention Forum Fall 2020 Zoom through YouTube
-Click here to access the online Hazing Prevention module.
ALL MEMBERS and ADVISORS of RSOs, clubs, teams, organizations, etc. are required to
complete the online hazing prevention training as mandated by the state of Louisiana.
We recommend all students, faculty, and staff take this training.
-Click here to access the Resource Handbook for Hazing Prevention Education
- Click here to access the Hazing Awareness Training PowerPoint
WHAT IS HAZING?
HAZING is defined as any intentional, knowing, or reckless act, occurring on or off the
campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed
against an individual that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a
student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding
office in, or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include
students at an educational institution, including but is not limited to the following:
- The person knew or should have known that the act endangers the physical health or
safety of the other person or causes severe emotional distress.
- The act was associated with pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, participating
in, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization.
This policy provides that “hazing” includes but is not limited to any of the following
that is associated with pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, participating
in, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization:
(1) Physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, burning, shoving
electronic shocking, blindfolding, paddle swats, bondage or restriction, or placing
of a harmful substance on the body, or similar activity.
(2) Physical activity, such as sleep, food or drink deprivation, exposure to the elements,
confinement in a small space, calisthenics, forced exercise, jogs or runs that subjects
the other person to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the physical
health or safety of the individual or causes severe emotional distress.
(3) Activity involving the consumption of food, liquid, or any other substance, including
but not limited to an alcoholic beverage or drug, that subjects the individual to
an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the physical health or safety
of the individual or causes severe emotional distress.
(4) Requiring or coercing someone to perform public stunts, buffoonery, personal or
group servitude (washing cars, running errands, cleaning), wearing apparel that is
uncomfortable, conspicuous, or not normally in good taste.
(5) Creating, inflicting, or requiring any activity that detracts from adequate study
or class time or productive work, or any activity that is not consistent with the
academic mission of the University of Louisiana Monroe. For example, any activity
or situation that keeps an individual from less than six uninterrupted hours of sleep.
(6) Bullying, degrading, humiliating, ridiculing, or harassing an individual or group
through words or deeds: line-ups or interrogations; name calling; threats or lies.
(7) Activity that induces, causes, or requires an individual to break a university,
local, state or federal law or policy. The law provides exceptions for normal physical
activity associated with athletics, physical education, military training, or similar
programs.
(8) Activity that includes nudity.
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Definitions You Should Know...
Organization: is a fraternity, sorority, association, corporation, order, society, corps, cooperative,
club, service group, social group, band, spirit group, athletic team, or similar group
whose members are primarily students at, or former students of, a post-secondary education
institution, including the national or parent organization of which any of the underlying
entities provided for in this definition is a sanctioned or recognized member at the
time of the hazing.
Pledging: is any action or activity related to becoming a member of an organization, including
recruitment and rushing.
Appropriate authority includes:
- Any state or local law enforcement agency.
- A 911 Public Safety Answering Point as defined in Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised
Statutes of 1950.
- Emergency medical personnel.
Reckless behavior: is an activity or behavior in which a reasonable person knew or reasonably should
have known that the activity or behavior may result in injury to another, including
but not limited to excessive consumption of alcohol, binge drinking, drag racing, consumption
of any controlled dangerous substance, acts of hazing, or other similar activity.
Serious bodily injury: is bodily injury that involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain, or protracted
and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily
member, organ, or mental faculty, death, or a substantial risk of death.
What You Should Know About Hazing
- More than half of college students involved in clubs, teams, and organizations experience
hazing.
- 82% of deaths from hazing involve alcohol.
- Individuals CANNOT consent to being hazed.
- Just because a majority of the members of an organization are not involved in a
hazing incident does not mean the organization is not responsible.
- Hazing is not just associated with athletes and Greek-lettered organizations. It
occurs across a wide spectrum of organizations.
HAZING IN STUDENT GROUPS
|
Student Group
|
Percent
|
|
Varsity Athletes
|
74%
|
|
Social Fraternity or Sorority
|
73%
|
|
Club Sport
|
64%
|
|
Performing Arts Organization
|
56%
|
|
Service Fraternity or Sorority
|
50%
|
|
Intramural Team
|
49%
|
|
Recreation Club
|
42%
|
|
*Other
|
30%
|
|
Academic Club
|
28%
|
|
Honor Society
|
20%
|
Allan & Madden, 2008, hazingstudy.org
*Other includes religiously-affiliated organizations, culture clubs and organizations,
and student government
