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Hazing & the Law
Antihazing: Prevention, enforcement, and transparency
When we talk about the law, it’s easy to start thinking: “As long as I’m not breaking any rules, what I’m doing must be okay”. But we forget that laws are meant to be MINIMUM standards of care, the least anyone is expected to do. Certainly, teammates, brothers, and sisters, all owe each other much more.
CL will talk to your students about the applicable state and college-specific policies on hazing and help students understand the true definition of hazing. Students will learn about negligence, social host liability, assault, and battery charges that can arise in hazing situations. More importantly, CL will discuss the culture that allows for the continuation of hazing and gives strategies via ethical leadership to eliminate it on your campus.
On Feb 2, 2017, Tim Piazza, a Beta Theta Pi pledge at Penn State, ran “The Gauntlet”. This drinking-based obstacle course was part of a hazing ritual. Tim consumed 18 drinks in an 80-minute period. During the next 14 hours, he fell multiple times, causing serious injury to his abdomen and head. During this time, rather than getting him medical help, his brothers kept him in the house to avoid getting in trouble. Two days later Piazza died from his injuries. Again, the fraternity members’ minds went to self-protection—deliberately erasing the house’s security footage from that night.
There’s a lot to unpack from Tim Piazza’s story:
- Moral and leadership failings
- Misguided loyalties
- Legal ramifications
- Cultural problems
While all of these are addressed in CL’s hazing lecture, the overarching theme of the talk is the concept of interpersonal responsibility.
More about C.L. Lindsay
Attorney C.L. Lindsay III is one of the nation’s leading experts in student discipline and higher education law. He has spent the last 20 years working with college students, teaching them about their legal rights and responsibilities. He literally wrote the book on legal problems at colleges. The College Student’s Guide to the Law has become the definitive authority used by students, university counsel, and as a textbook for master’s and law courses nationwide.
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Learning Outcomes
After the lecture attendees will:
- Fully understand the state law (if one exists) and school policy concerning hazing, with an emphasis on bystander liability and immunity
- Learn what behaviors can be considered hazing from the most subtle to violent varieties
- Be taught the trends in state and federal law, including a look at Louisiana’s recently passed law that extends liability far beyond direct actors
- Understand other potential legal problems that could arise in a hazing incident including assault, battery, negligence, landlord liability, and social host liability
- Discuss the idea that laws and rules are MINIMUM standards of care and examine that idea in the context of Fraternity and Sorority tenets of brother- and sisterhood.
- Learn about the history of hazing deaths in America going back to the 1800s
- Deeply examine the case of Tim Piazza (Beta Theta Pi, Penn State University) and see how both the system and brotherhood bonds failed
- Learn about Ethical Leadership and how teams, chapters, and organizations can implement strategies to encourage transparency and accountability
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Hazing & the Law
Antihazing: Prevention, enforcement, and transparency
When we talk about the law, it’s easy to start thinking: “As long as I’m not breaking any rules, what I’m doing must be okay”. But we forget that laws are meant to be MINIMUM standards of care, the least anyone is expected to do. Certainly, teammates, brothers, and sisters, all owe each other much more.
CL will talk to your students about the applicable state and college-specific policies on hazing and help students understand the true definition of hazing. Students will learn about negligence, social host liability, assault, and battery charges that can arise in hazing situations. More importantly, CL will discuss the culture that allows for the continuation of hazing and gives strategies via ethical leadership to eliminate it on your campus.
On Feb 2, 2017, Tim Piazza, a Beta Theta Pi pledge at Penn State, ran “The Gauntlet”. This drinking-based obstacle course was part of a hazing ritual. Tim consumed 18 drinks in an 80-minute period. During the next 14 hours, he fell multiple times, causing serious injury to his abdomen and head. During this time, rather than getting him medical help, his brothers kept him in the house to avoid getting in trouble. Two days later Piazza died from his injuries. Again, the fraternity members’ minds went to self-protection—deliberately erasing the house’s security footage from that night.
There’s a lot to unpack from Tim Piazza’s story:
- Moral and leadership failings
- Misguided loyalties
- Legal ramifications
- Cultural problems
While all of these are addressed in CL’s hazing lecture, the overarching theme of the talk is the concept of interpersonal responsibility.
More about C.L. Lindsay
Attorney C.L. Lindsay III is one of the nation’s leading experts in student discipline and higher education law. He has spent the last 20 years working with college students, teaching them about their legal rights and responsibilities. He literally wrote the book on legal problems at colleges. The College Student’s Guide to the Law has become the definitive authority used by students, university counsel, and as a textbook for master’s and law courses nationwide.
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Hazing & the Law
Antihazing: Prevention, enforcement, and transparency
When we talk about the law, it’s easy to start thinking: “As long as I’m not breaking any rules, what I’m doing must be okay”. But we forget that laws are meant to be MINIMUM standards of care, the least anyone is expected to do. Certainly, teammates, brothers, and sisters, all owe each other much more.
CL will talk to your students about the applicable state and college-specific policies on hazing and help students understand the true definition of hazing. Students will learn about negligence, social host liability, assault, and battery charges that can arise in hazing situations. More importantly, CL will discuss the culture that allows for the continuation of hazing and gives strategies via ethical leadership to eliminate it on your campus.
On Feb 2, 2017, Tim Piazza, a Beta Theta Pi pledge at Penn State, ran “The Gauntlet”. This drinking-based obstacle course was part of a hazing ritual. Tim consumed 18 drinks in an 80-minute period. During the next 14 hours, he fell multiple times, causing serious injury to his abdomen and head. During this time, rather than getting him medical help, his brothers kept him in the house to avoid getting in trouble. Two days later Piazza died from his injuries. Again, the fraternity members’ minds went to self-protection—deliberately erasing the house’s security footage from that night.
There’s a lot to unpack from Tim Piazza’s story:
- Moral and leadership failings
- Misguided loyalties
- Legal ramifications
- Cultural problems
While all of these are addressed in CL’s hazing lecture, the overarching theme of the talk is the concept of interpersonal responsibility.
More about C.L. Lindsay
Attorney C.L. Lindsay III is one of the nation’s leading experts in student discipline and higher education law. He has spent the last 20 years working with college students, teaching them about their legal rights and responsibilities. He literally wrote the book on legal problems at colleges. The College Student’s Guide to the Law has become the definitive authority used by students, university counsel, and as a textbook for master’s and law courses nationwide.
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