Reporting Hazing

If you have witnessed or know about inappropriate activities taking place on your organization, it is important that you notify the following persons or offices:

• International headquarters
• Chapter/Regional advisor to the organization
• Dean of Students
• Office of Student Life
• UCAPD

To deal effectively with hazing in your organization, you should make efforts to increase:

Awareness Among Your Members

Use case studies, surveys, news stories, international policy statements, or special national publications that discuss hazing practices to help inform members of the dangers and negative ramifications of hazing.

Education of Your Members

Employ on-campus resources, such as leadership conferences, resource libraries, videos, manuals, or UCA professional staff to help educate members of your organization on ways to address and correct hazing problems.

Detection of Violations by Your Members

The organization can be held responsible for the hazing actions of individual members, even if the organization as a whole is not involved. It is important to look for activities and comments that may suggest a member or group of members is hazing other members.

Corrective Action

Do not overlook any hazing problems you find in your organization. It is crucial that those members who are found in violation of hazing policies be disciplined for their actions. Corrective action should be tailed to the incident, taking the severity and nature of the problem, alumni/ae involvement, environment and any other pertinent factors into consideration. Your willingness to address these problems will help if you are found responsible for hazing by your International organization or the University.