https://www.insidehazing.com/home daily 1.0 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/77bafed0-1d28-4935-a3b6-1f482989f316/inside+hazing+post+10.23.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/49e15b5d-e59b-492c-9b75-992e2f7e990d/FU5-1.JPG Home - Legal Loopholes Greek organizations are renaming hazing rituals and elongating the hazing process, in order to skirt the legal definitions used by colleges and states. For example, they will initiate new members in a shorter period of time, but continue to haze them even after they have been identified as “full members.” In this way, the groups claim that the rituals were not hazing, and/or not illegal according to the letter of the law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/6bd42bd8-da8b-497e-8671-50891090bf6f/CatholicLAX8-1.JPG Home - Female Deaths More female students are dying due to hazing. Victims are not only dying on the couches of fraternity houses. Students of all ethnicity are dying due to negligence-physical pain and psychological suffering. Young women, Asian, Afro-American and others are dead due to the hazing traditions in their sororities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/7515b888-bbd5-4bd5-9e0d-42cca632eeab/UCSB2-1.JPG Home - Sexualized Hazing Hazing continues to incorporate sexualized events. From a psychological perspective, using sexualized hazing is the quickest method of humiliating a student. It immediately demonstrates the hierarchy and makes the victim feel completely helpless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/1948d082-6f4a-49d1-833d-0cabc25e2f82/IMG_8585.jpg Home - Dr. Susan Lipkins Psychologist | Expert Witness Author of: Preventing Hazing: How Parents, Teachers and Coaches Can Stop the Violence, Harassment and Humiliation 516-521-2518 drlipkins@gmail.com Dr. Lipkins is a psychologist who is a pioneer in the area of hazing, bullying and harassment. Her interest started with a sexualized hazing ritual on a nearby high school football team. Dr. Lipkins is also an expert witness for cases involving hazing and bullying. Hazing victims and their families usually bring a lawsuit when the damages have been physically and/or psychologically harmful in significant ways. Dr. Lipkins specializes in campus conflict and violence in high schools and colleges. She has appeared on television as an expert in hazing and bullying more than 100 times, and has been seen on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, ESPN, SKYTV. In addition, she has been quoted and published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Washington Post, The Daily News, as well as many other magazines, and publications worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/168b2611-5320-46fe-97ea-0004542b4bfb/Screen+Shot+2023-07-08+at+1.15.50+PM.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/15cafa20-3acc-4dde-803e-bcdbb0d193ed/hqdefault.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/2c41051c-51dc-4b52-8bf6-97f483999220/Screen+Shot+2023-07-12+at+11.44.40+AM.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/adfb6032-4b61-42bb-a474-6af4fce4f033/4F2IY4ORGRDIBH5WJN5773UXXM.JPG Home - Make it stand out Chicago Tribune • Jul 12, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/827bc361-60c7-44f4-971e-7ff7c0299d78/artworks-aF8f1W0WEB2v47Yj-OO0tjw-t500x500.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/bedb0c16-e970-4baf-a08d-cd6428bdbfcd/hazing+screen+grab.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/f18e5efb-b445-4456-98f0-77a04b5a1477/Screen+Shot+2023-07-24+at+9.52.39+AM.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/c4a991e9-7a74-48cf-b947-b0da49b80340/stars.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/c4a991e9-7a74-48cf-b947-b0da49b80340/stars.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/c4a991e9-7a74-48cf-b947-b0da49b80340/stars.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.insidehazing.com/definitions-what-who-where-when daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/7697e618-ba89-4c89-96e7-e80acbea7bef/CatholicLAX13-1.JPG Definitions: What / Who / Where / When - What is the blueprint of hazing? The blueprint of hazing states that the newcomer, or victim, is hazed. Once accepted by the group, the victim becomes a bystander, and watches as others get hazed. Eventually, the bystander achieves senior status and power, and becomes a perpetrator. Perpetrators do onto others what was done to themselves and they feel as though they have the right and duty to pass on the tradition. High school students pack up this blueprint and stuff it into their backpack, in order to take their hazing experience with them to college, the military and the workplace. Each hazing brings with it the possibility of a new twist. Perpetrators want to leave their mark on the tradition, and therefore they may add or change the tradition, slightly, often increasing the severity of the ritual. For example, more alcohol is required to be ingested; paddling may become more intense, or sexual acts may be more violent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/60a8dec1-582a-42db-a988-74e30b6b47bc/Miami13-1.JPG Definitions: What / Who / Where / When - What is the difference between hazing and bullying? Hazing is a group activity, that is planned, and has a beginning, middle and end. No individual gains anything, other than being accepted into the group. Bullying is typically a spontaneous activity that garners the bully an object such as lunch, homework, money, or social status. Bullies frequently target an individual whereas hazing typically targets groups of people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/8e405db1-1474-481e-836d-4fc0af4ace7b/JMUSoccer05-4.JPG Definitions: What / Who / Where / When - What is hazing? Hazing is a process, based on a tradition that is used by groups to discipline and to maintain a hierarchy (i.e., a pecking order). Regardless of consent, the rituals require individuals to engage in activities that are physically and psychologically stressful. These activities can be humiliating, demeaning, intimidating, and exhausting, all of which results in physical and/or emotional discomfort. Hazing is about group dynamics and proving one's worthiness to become a member of the specific group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/fb44239f-ab80-460c-8ea3-0e7d04a92bc5/shot-of-a-teenage-girl-using-a-smartphone-next-to-2022-09-30-21-11-17-utc.jpg Definitions: What / Who / Where / When - What is bullying? Bullying is an intentional act of aggression that is meant to harm a victim either physically or psychologically. Bullies usually operate alone or in small groups and choose to victimize individuals who they perceive as vulnerable. Victims attract bullies by their small stature, their younger age, or lower social status. Frequently there is only one specific victim who is often a scapegoat. There are no traditions involved, nor are there authority figures or leaders. The intent of the bully is to satisfy his own personal needs, such as obtaining money, lunch, homework or simply intimidating someone. Bullying has been observed in preschool children whereas hazing does not begin until middle or high school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/9d607b5c-7cef-492d-b614-9f74a99431f6/nusoccer16-1.JPG Definitions: What / Who / Where / When - What is hazardous hazing? Hazardous hazing occurs when the traditions or initiation rites skid out of control and cause significant and lasting physical and/or psychological damage. When hazardous hazing occurs everyone in the group, including the perpetrators, (those who planned and carried out the actions) bystanders (those who watched and did not actively participate) and victims, (those who were receiving the hazing) may be psychologically traumatized. The families of those involved, coaches and other supervisors may also be traumatized; even if they were not present during the hazardous hazing. Their trauma may be evident immediately, it may be delayed for months or years or even decades. https://www.insidehazing.com/definitions-why daily 0.75 2022-11-11 https://www.insidehazing.com/warning-signs daily 0.75 2022-11-11 https://www.insidehazing.com/legislation daily 0.75 2022-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/ca91d47f-9390-4219-a2f3-6f978ded176a/unsplash-image-XWW746i6WoM.jpg Legislation - Proposed Federal Legislation In March of 2005, Mrs. Karen Savoy, founder of Mothers Against School Hazing and Dr. Susan Lipkins, psychologist and researcher, traveled to the Capitol in order to gain support for their Hazing Prevention Act. They met with the staff of Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who promised to author an anti-hazing bill. In addition, the staffs of Senators Clinton and Kennedy, among others, seemed interested in this kind of legislation. The National Hazing Prevention Act is a bill to define hazing as an illegal act of violence that may be perpetrated by and among children, adolescents or adults and results in serious psychological and physical harm. This bill establishes a National Center on Hazing, to provide financial assistance for programs that effectively combat hazing that occurs in schools, colleges, the military and at work. https://www.insidehazing.com/betrayal daily 0.75 2022-11-11 https://www.insidehazing.com/statistics daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://www.insidehazing.com/dr-lipkins daily 0.75 2022-10-27 https://www.insidehazing.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://www.insidehazing.com/whats-new-in-hazing daily 0.75 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/49e15b5d-e59b-492c-9b75-992e2f7e990d/FU5-1.JPG What's New In Hazing - Legal Loopholes Greek organizations are renaming hazing rituals and elongating the hazing process, in order to skirt the legal definitions used by colleges and states. For example, they will initiate new members in a shorter period of time, but continue to haze them even after they have been identified as “full members.” In this way, the groups claim that the rituals were not hazing, and/or not illegal according to the letter of the law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/7515b888-bbd5-4bd5-9e0d-42cca632eeab/UCSB2-1.JPG What's New In Hazing - Sexualized Hazing Hazing continues to incorporate sexualized events. From a psychological perspective, using sexualized hazing is the quickest method of humiliating a student. It immediately demonstrates the hierarchy and makes the victim feel completely helpless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6341e375203baa160da87444/6bd42bd8-da8b-497e-8671-50891090bf6f/CatholicLAX8-1.JPG What's New In Hazing - Female Deaths More female students are dying due to hazing. Victims are not only dying on the couches of fraternity houses. Students of all ethnicity are dying due to negligence-physical pain and psychological suffering. Young women, Asian, Afro-American and others are dead due to the hazing traditions in their sororities.