Link to speaker Brian Crow’s presentation
Here is the Clarion Ledge report to alleged hazing at a Mississippi high school
Excerpt: Madison Central High School officials are addressing a recent instance of student initiation activities which prompted at least two sets of parents to complain to school officials and police.
No injuries were reported as a result of the activities, Madison Police Department Assistant Chief Robert Sanders said. And ultimately, Sanders said, parents of the underclassmen involved decided not to press charges.
MCHS Principal Austin Brown said the activities in question involved upperclassmen and underclassmen, but he did not specify which grades were involved. MCHS serves just under 1,300 sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Though Brown said he could not provide details about what happened, he said the basis for the complaints included “things that would certainly classify that would be used in hazing rituals.”
Brown said the activity apparently occurred after school Thursday and off school property.
Excerpt from the Mercury News:
The president of Humboldt State University on Tuesday suspended the school’s men’s soccer team for the coming academic year as a result of a new recruit hazing ritual involving most of the team’s players.
Rollin Richmond made the announcement as the university released its findings from an investigation into the Aug. 4 incident at an off-campus house party where new players, most of them incoming freshmen, were ordered to perform humiliating acts and to consume large amounts of alcohol.
“Following careful investigation including interviews with team members, the university has concluded that an incident of hazing did occur, and that it placed the lives of two students in real jeopardy,” Richmond said in a letter to the campus.
Along with prohibiting the 33-member soccer team from competing in any California Collegiate Athletic Conference or university-sanctioned games during the 2012-2013 season, Humboldt plans to discipline individual students, he said. Many Lumberjacks were involved in or witnessed the hazing, he said.
“I hope that the team discipline, along with individual disciplinary actions, send a clear message that this was unacceptable. Hazing is not tolerated at Humboldt State, not in athletics and not in any other area,” Richmond said.