Colleges and universities across the commonwealth yesterday posted reports on hazing reports from the last five years, in accordance with a new state law. From now on, the reports are now required twice a year, on January 1st and August 1st annually.
With the law not offering detailed specifics on what must be included, each school interprets the requirements by its own standards.
IUP listed ten incidents between the fall semester of 2013 and the fall of 2018. While schools such as Penn State went into great detail as to what happened in each incident, IUP chose to list each incident simply as “hazing”.
IUP lists one incident in the just-completed fall semester. The Delta Gamma Epsilon Eta Chapter was charged in a hazing incident on September 23rd. The sorority’s nation headquarters received the report and investigated, finding the chapter responsible. The chapter is on “national temporary chapter restriction” with further sanctions pending.
All but two of the ten hazing incidents investigated in the last five years involved fraternities or sororities. The other two were an incident in March of 2017 involving the school’s Percussion Studio – which was not a school-recognized organization – and a 2015 incident involving the swim team. Four of the ten incidents were deemed ‘unfounded”.
Sanctions mostly included probationary periods and, in some cases, removal of violators from their organization. No chapters were suspended.
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE IUP HAZING REPORT:
file:///C:/Users/INDstudio/Downloads/Anti%20Hazing%20Chart%20Jan%202019.pdf
