Hazing Policies

Hazing includes but is not limited to:

• Behaviors occurring on or off campus that are physically, emotionally, or psychologically humiliating or abusive, or endanger the health or safety of an individual or selected group of individuals as part of the process of gaining entrance or acceptance into an established group, team, or organization. 

• Any activity as described in this definition upon which the initiation or admission into, or affiliation with, or continued membership in an organization is directly or indirectly conditioned shall be presumed to be “forced” activity, the willingness of an individual to participate in such activity notwithstanding.  

What Counts as Hazing?

Hazing includes but is not limited to 

• subjecting an individual to extreme mental stress

•  or encouraging or requiring willful destruction or removal of public or private property for the purpose of initiation or admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition of continued membership in any organization

 The term “hazing” shall also include, but not be limited to, 

• any brutality of a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics,

•  exposure to the elements,

•  forced consumption of any food, liquor, drug or other substance,

•  Any other forced physical activity which could adversely affect the physical health and safety of the individual, and includes activities subjecting persons to extreme mental stress, 

  • including sleep deprivation, forced exclusion from social contact

  • forced conduct which could result in extreme embarrassment

  • any other forced activity which could adversely affect the mental health or dignity of the individual. 

Report an Incident of Hazing

• Hazing Reporting Form

Franklin & Marshall Hazing Report

• College's Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing  Law Report