, a nonprofit that tracks legislation and advocates for change, and found a patchwork of regulation that has done little to end annual initiation rituals of physical, mental and sexual abuse.
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy talks about anti-hazing legislation he's introduced in Congress from his office on Capitol HillBy Hank Nuwer’s calculation, hazing has claimed at least 285 students, with the first fraternity pledge dying in 1873 at Cornell University in New York.began researching the issue in 1975 after witnessing a hazing incident involving a rugby club when he was a teaching fellow in Nevada.
Nuwer knows the name of every student who has died and can rattle off even the smallest details about these dangerous incidents that some organizations see as nothing more than bonding. Texas State student Matthew Ellis died in 2017 after guzzling a bottle of liquor during a Phi Kappa Psi pledge event.
Other states such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey specifically list actions that constitute hazing including whipping, branding, forcing exercise, and depriving sleep, for example. While hazing deaths make headlines, thousands of other students are subjected to humiliating and/or dangerous activities.requested reports of confirmed hazing cases from the 46 largest public and private universities that are required by their states’ laws to make them public.· New members of a spirit group at the University of Texas that had to bite off the head of a live hamster.
· A historically black sorority that was expelled from Bowling Green State University in Ohio after forcing pledges into acts of servitude and consume alcohol, among other things. Jim and Evelyn Piazza stand with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy following the signing of anti-legislation named in honor of their son, Tim, who died after a hazing incident in 2017.
Seven schools said they had no records related to confirmed hazing cases. The remaining four schools either declined to produce the records or had yet to comply with the request. · In 119 cases, the hazing involved some sort of physical abuse such as forcing pledges to do calisthenics, submitting them to sleep deprivation or making them eat non-food substances.
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