Cassidy, Klobuchar National Hazing Awareness Week Resolution Passes Senate

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced that their resolution to recognize National Hazing Awareness Week passed the U.S. Senate. The resolution designates this week, September 23 through 27, 2024, as "National Hazing Awareness Week," recognizing the hundreds of students who have died or suffered severe, life-altering injuries as a result of collegiate hazing, and promotes efforts to prevent hazing.

Additionally, Cassidy and Klobuchar's Stop Campus Hazing Act, which improves reporting and prevention of hazing on college campuses has passed the U.S. House of Representatives. This bipartisan legislation requires colleges to include hazing incidents in their annual campus safety report and establish a campus-wide, research-based program to educate students about the dangers of hazing. In addition, the bill increases transparency and accountability by providing parents and students with better information about a student organization's history of hazing incidents.

"Students and families should feel safe no matter what college they choose," said Dr. Cassidy. "By increasing transparency, the Stop Campus Hazing Act will ensure that hazing is never ignored. We must get this bill across the finish line and passed into law."

"When parents send their kids away to college, they expect they will get a good education and make new friends. Unfortunately, too many are also exposed to hazing, a dangerous-and at times deadly-problem," said Senator Klobuchar. "Our bipartisan legislation will improve hazing prevention efforts on college campuses to make sure we have the information we need to stop this abuse and keep students safe."

The National Study of Student Hazing found that more than half of college students involved in extracurricular clubs, athletic teams, and organizations experience hazing. Since 2000, there have been more than 50 hazing-related deaths.

The Stop Campus Hazing Act would:

• Improve hazing reporting by requiring colleges to include hazing incidents in their Annual Security Report;

• Prevent hazing by establishing campus-wide, research-based hazing education and prevention programs; and

• Help students and their parents make informed decisions about joining organizations on campus by requiring colleges to publish on their websites the institution's hazing prevention policies and the organizations that have violated them.

This legislation is supported by the Clery Center; StopHazing; Anti-Hazing Coalition including the Hazing Prevention Network, Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values, Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors, National Panhellenic Conference and its member sororities, the North American Interfraternity Conference and its member fraternities; National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc.; Association of Big Ten Students; College Safety Coalition; SAFE Campuses, LLC; International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators; National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals; and the parents of hazing victims.

The 2024 National Hazing Awareness Week resolution is cosponsored by U.S. Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Bob Casey (D-PA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (I-ME), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Steve Daines (R-MT), Chris Coons (D-DE), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Joe Manchin (I-WV).

This Stop Campus Hazing Act is cosponsored by U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Bob Casey (D-PA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Tim Kaine (D-VA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Steve Daines (R-MT), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Angus King (I-ME).

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