hazing

An alleged hazing incident is under investigation at the high school in Woburn, Massachusetts. The Woburn Police Department received a complaint Wednesday involving members of a Woburn High School sports team regarding an incident earlier in the school year, according to a joint statement from Woburn Police Chief Robert Rufo, Mayor Scott Galvin and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Matthew Crowley….

Maine’s Brunswick High School has ended its football season three games early and its head football coach was fired after a school district investigation into a hazing incident.

Allegations of hazing on a Maine high school football team led to a coach being fired and the rest of the season being canceled.

Hazing in New Jersey will be met with harsher penalties under a new law named after Tim Piazza, a state native and Penn State student who died in 2017.

A Bowling Green State University student’s family says the 20 year old has died after an alleged hazing incident involving alcohol.

Louisiana State University says a fraternity member has been arrested on charges including hazing in connection with an incident that news outlets reported had hospitalized a student.

A former Penn State football player claims in a lawsuit that Nittany Lions players hazed him and other younger teammates by imitating sexual acts in the shower and invoking Jerry Sandusky’s name.

A Massachusetts high school has prematurely ended its football season in response to hazing allegations. The Telegram & Gazette reports that at least five Worcester Technical football players are barred from classes pending the outcome of disciplinary hearings. School officials became aware of an incident they said was video recorded and posted on social media after a player’s guardian contacted...

Dartmouth College has hired an external investigator to look into hazing allegations involving 13 student groups including fraternities, sororities and athletic teams.

The first member of a Penn State University fraternity to plead guilty in connection with the death of a pledge last year after a night of drinking and hazing has been sentenced to three months’ house arrest. A judge on Tuesday announced the punishment for Ryan Burke for four counts of hazing and five alcohol violations.

Attorneys are set to give closing arguments in the case of a former Florida A&M University band member charged with manslaughter and hazing in the death of a drum major who was beaten on a band bus during a hazing ritual.

The trial of four band members is scheduled to start Monday on charges of felony hazing and manslaughter, almost three years after drum major Robert Champion died from being beaten during that ritual. His death shone a spotlight on hazing at FAMU and other colleges, caused the band to be suspended for over a year and contributed to the resignation...

Students at an Inland Empire high school have started a petition to lift the suspensions of 21 students, after they were suspended for alleged hazing during an out-of-state trip by the football team.