Tag: Hazing

Experts on hazing prevention are hoping that the backlash to the hazing reports within the Northwestern sports programs could lead to a shift in how colleges and universities respond to incidents on their campuses. The reports of hazing, bullying, and toxicity at Northwestern have resulted in the terminations of two…

Northwestern University is facing two lawsuits from former athletes over its role in hazing incidents involving the school’s athletics department. According to one suit, a female student athlete experienced “hazing, harassment, bullying and retaliation” as a member of the volleyball team and sustained an injury while running suicides—an exercise where…

Greek Life and Hazing  Inside Higher Ed offers a Q&A with Byron Hurt, the documentary filmmaker whose latest work features the dangers of hazing associated with Greek Life and other campus organizations. Hurt discusses his own experience in a Black fraternity at Northeastern University, the power of trauma bonding, and…

Several fraternities are dissafilliating from the University of Southern California, meaning they will no longer be subject to oversight from the school, which suspended fraternity activities last year after a wave of drugging and sexual assault accusations. According to Inside Higher Ed and Higher Ed Dive, the case at USC…

Inside Higher Ed reports on college women experiencing hazing. Recent hazing allegations of waterboarding at Norwich University involved a 22-year-old women’s rugby team member found intoxicated, “branded with pliers and a lighter,” and covered in urine. “Our research at the Piazza Center suggests that women are more likely to engage…

The New York Times reports that 11 students from Virginia Commonwealth University were arrested this week after an investigation into the death of 19-year-old Adam Oakes, who died from alcohol poisoning in February. At the Delta Chi fraternity house, Oakes was given a bottle of whiskey and told to drink…

Fifteen men were charged in connection to the death of Samuel Martinez, 19, who died of alcohol poisoning from a fraternity pledging event at Washington State University in 2019. Fraternity members of Alpha Tau Omega were each charged with supplying liquor to minors after a yearlong police investigation. The family…