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What is Hazing?

There are three components that define hazing (StopHazing Research Lab. 2020, December. Hazing: The Issue, StopHazing Consulting.)

1. It occurs in a group context
2. Humiliating, degrading, or endangering behavior
3. Happens regardless of an individual’s willingness to participate
    

What Happens During Hazing?

Hazing may seem like something that's only associated with fraternities and sororities, but it's not limited to those groups--it can happen with sports, clubs and other student organizations. Hazing can cause significant physical and emotional harm. It often creates a fearful situation for those who witness it and want to report it, because they may fear retaliation or being ostracized from the group.

Hazing can include the following behaviors, though this is not an exhaustive list:

• whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking
   
• placing a harmful substance on someone's body, or similar activity
   
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity
   
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances; 
   
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
   
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct
   
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing activities against another person that break a law
   
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform a duty or task that breaks a law

What To Do If You See or Experience Acts of Hazing?

• Contact Campus Police and Public Safety at 911
   
  • To report a crime or an emergency at the 97É«Íø Main Campus or Northern 97É«Íø Center (NDC), call Police and Public Safety at 911 or ext. 5555 or, if the call is being sent from outside the college phone system, call 919-536-7255, ext. 5555.
     
  • To report a crime or an emergency at the 97É«Íø Orange County Campus, call Campus Police and Public Safety at 911 or, ext. 5555 or if the call is being sent from outside the college phone system, call 919-536-7255, ext. 5555, or 919-732-4185. Crimes may also be reported to the Hillsborough Police Department at 911 or 919-296-9500.
     
  • To report a non-emergency security or public safety-related matter or to request non-emergency assistance, call Campus Police and Public Safety at extension 5555 or, if the call is being sent outside the college phone system, call 919-536-7255, ext. 5555.
     
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• Contact the Dean of Student Services at 919-536-7200 x8091.
   
• Contact one of the Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) - Campus security authorities include any 97É«Íø official who has a significant responsibility for campus security and for certain student and campus activities. They include:
   
  • 97É«Íø Campus Police and Public Safety officers;
     
  • Any individuals not employed by 97É«Íø Campus Police and Public Safety department but who have responsibility for monitoring entrance into College property (e.g., security officers employed for special events on College property); and
     
  • Personnel responsible for counseling and student development, academic and personal counseling, and accessibility services.

How Does the College Respond to Hazing?

The Student Conduct Office will coordinate hazing investigations according to the college’s Student Code of Conduct procedure, which includes an appeals process. Violations of the code of conduct may result in immediate sanctions, including probation, suspension, or expulsion from the College.

Hazing Resources