Ah, it’s back-to-school time, and the red zone is approaching. That’s the stretch between the start of orientation and winter break when our phones light up with calls from parents asking for help after their student is hit...more
President Biden has signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act (the “Act”) into law. The Act, the first federal anti-hazing law, is the result of a bi-partisan effort and comes after several years of patchwork efforts to address...more
A new bill in Congress, referred to as the “Stop Campus Hazing Act,” seeks to add a definition of hazing to the Higher Education Act and require that hazing incidents be reported in the Annual Security Reports that colleges...more
National studies of student hazing have found that more than half of college students associated with clubs, teams or organizations experience hazing. Yet less than 10% of those who experience hazing actually call the...more
In January 2016, I was asked to conduct an investigation concerning sexual abuse at St. George’s School, and the school’s response to reports of abuse, from 1960 to the present. At the time, St. George’s faced a firestorm of...more
On May 24, 2016, Governor Tom Wolf signed legislation requiring Pennsylvania secondary schools to adopt policies and procedures to prevent and correct hazing in schools. House Bill 1574, sponsored by Rep. Ron Marsico,...more