Category: Prevention
A Student Perspective on StopHazing’s New Online Course: Stand Up to Hazing™
August 8, 2023 Guest writer: Ella Allan-Rahill, Student Research-to-Practice intern* I’ve been interning with StopHazing for a little over a year now and am about to enter my second year of college. Even before college, I experienced unhealthy groups, which could’ve created an environment for hazing. While I never experienced hazing myself, these unhealthy group… Continue reading »
Help Prevent Hazing: 10 Easy Tips for Talking with your Teen
July 20, 2023 | Guest Author: Lisa Stephen, PhD., ACC, NBC-HWC Dear Reader, As I was finalizing this blog, I took a break to take a walk along the river. I saw a university rowing team in a boat getting ready to take off. All of them were wearing heavy headpieces. I could hear the… Continue reading »
Hazing Prevention at a School that “Doesn’t Haze”
December 13, 2022 Guest writer: Bianca Dunay, Student Intern There has been at least one hazing-related death each year since 1970.1 While that statistic is heartbreaking, I’m sure we’ve all thought “There is no way this would happen at my school.” So, at a school that “doesn’t haze,” why do you need to be concerned… Continue reading »
Recapping SNAP in 2021-2022 and Looking to the Year Ahead
August, 12 2022 A lot happened in the 2021-2022 academic year at StopHazing–a number of updates, resources developed, research conducted, and new initiatives formed. One new initiative from StopHazing is the Student Network for Advocacy and Prevention or SNAP for short. SNAP is a student-led group dedicated to hazing prevention education and advocating for comprehensive… Continue reading »
Families, advocates walk Capitol Hill to advance hazing prevention legislation
July 29, 2022 Washington, D.C. – Parents who lost children to hazing, as well as the leaders of anti-hazing advocacy groups met with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle this week to promote legislation that seeks to prevent hazing in higher education. The Report and Educate About Campus Hazing (REACH) Act is… Continue reading »
Beyond the Letters: The Importance of University-Wide Hazing Prevention
June 27, 2022 Contributing Author: Claire Berman, M.S.Ed. According to the National Survey of Student Hazing, 55% of all students involved in any student organization experience hazing. Hazing has been defined by StopHazing as, any activity that is expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses or endangers them, regardless… Continue reading »
Hazing is Not Tradition
Julie & Gary DeVercelly | March 25, 2022 It’s springtime! Our family’s favorite time of year. It stays light later, flowers and trees are blooming, and the parks are bustling. We’re easily transported back in time with the sounds of laughter, cheering, and the crack of the bat. To times when our family of five… Continue reading »
Five Ways We Don’t Haze Can Impact Your Campus
Feb. 2, 2022 | StopHazing & Clery Center Although 2022 just began, national headlines continue to highlight the realities and dangers of hazing within our campus communities. Institutions nationwide have banned student organizations for hazing practices, students have been suspended for engaging in hazing, and lawsuits have been filed against campuses from students or families… Continue reading »
60 Minutes Hazing Segment Follow-up: Q & A with The Fierberg National Law Group
January 12, 2022 Late last year, 60 Minutes aired a segment about fraternity hazing at the Washington State University that resulted in the tragic death of Sam Martinez. This Q & A serves to dig deeper into the realities of hazing from the perspective of Douglas E. Fierberg, Esq., of The Fierberg National Law Group… Continue reading »
Using StopHazing’s New Digital Tools & Downloads
October 25, 2021 As part of StopHazing’s mission to promote safe and inclusive school, campus, and organizational environments through research, resource sharing, and the development of data-driven strategies for hazing prevention and the promotion of positive group climates, StopHazing is dedicated to providing resources for stakeholders to communicate the nature and extent of hazing, its… Continue reading »