Many schools lack an anti-hazing policy. Read the cases below (actual cases from around the country) and ask yourself how you would respond if they occurred at your school...

• Four years ago a student suffered through a hazing ritual to become a high school choir member.
  
  “I was beaten with a two-by-four, and left welts across my rear, and I was hit about four times. I was then covered in human waste, Crisco oil, peanut butter, things were shoved down my pants.”
  
  
• When a student showed up for picture day at high school, he expected to pose for a snapshot with the track and field team.   Instead, he says, he found himself facedown on the athletic field, the victim of humiliating sexual assaults by his teammates.
  
  “A kid grabbed me from behind and held me,” said the 17 year-old. “And another one ran up and tackled me to the ground. And then two others came and held me down to the ground, and one of them started putting their fingers into my rectum area, through my sweats and underwear.”
  
  
• Two football players testified in juvenile court that they rescued a teammate after he allegedly was sexually assaulted with a foreign object in the locker room.
  
  
• A freshman gymnast alleges that one night she was surrounded by 30 upperclassmen and forced to participate in a mock sex act as part of a team hazing ritual.
  
  
• Thirteen football players were suspended after a junior varsity player was beaten up after entering the varsity locker room.  The player was treated for fluid in his lungs and later quit school.
  
  
• Three baseball players were suspended and charged with battery for overpowering a sophomore player and cutting his hair.
  
  
• Members of a girls’ athletic squad charged that they saw evidence of male athletes being sodomized with fingers and objects. A parent of a young man accused of hazing says due process was not followed.   The basketball coach was indicted on three counts of felony child abuse.
  
  
• Fourteen female field hockey players have lost team status after younger players said they’d been subjected to sexual simulation acts and demeaning activities. Lawyers for some of the parents said they would sue to get their daughters back on the team.
  
  
• Five seventh-grade football players said eighth-grade players bruised them following a paddling.“Isn’t no big deal,” said the father of one eighth-grader.
  
  
• Eight students were arrested and seven expelled after a new wrestling teammate was injured in a hazing ritual. Police say the victim, a student with learning disabilities, was stuffed inside a locker, slammed into a wall and sodomized with a plastic knife in a series of attacks. The victim suffered a serious knee injury in one incident and is receiving counseling for emotional trauma. A team member also reportedly told police that both the wrestling and the basketball coaches at the school saw the victim hog-tied and did nothing.
  

IS YOUR SCHOOL PREPARED TO HANDLE
A HAZING COMPLAINT?