"Hazing" is a broad term encompassing actions or activities often associated with initiation or group associations which inflict or attempt to cause mental or physical harm or anxieties; or which demean, degrade, or disgrace any person regardless of location, intent, or consent of participants (as defined in §101(21) of the Community Standards).

Loyola's prohibition on hazing applies to individual students as well any student groups or student organization including, but not limited to, club sports teams and NCAA athletic teams. Acts of hazing may include, but are not limited to:

• All forms of strenuous physical activity that might reasonably endanger the health or safety of an associate and that is not part of an organized voluntary athletic contest or specifically directed toward constructive work
• Paddling, beating, pushing, tattooing, branding, or otherwise permitting anyone to strike an associate
• Activities that interfere with an associate’s academic effort by causing an unreasonable loss of sleep or study time (associate activities may not exceed four hours in one day or 15 hours in one school week)
• Forcing or coercing an associate to eat or drink any substance
• Abductions, scavenger hunts, road trips, etc., conducted in a manner which might reasonably endanger the health or safety of an associate
• Subjecting an associate to cruel psychological conditions (e.g. verbal abuse, threats, lineups, forced confinement, etc.)
• Servitude of any kind asked or required of an associate
• Removing, stealing, or damaging private or public property
• Withholding or taking an associate’s personal property (e.g. wallet, keys, phone, etc.)
• Falsely leading associates to believe they will be initiated by participating in particular activities
• Any requirement which forces an associate to participate in any activity which is illegal, indecent, morally degrading, not consistent with the organization’s mission or values, or contrary to the Community Standards

In response to complaints or reports of hazing, it is not a defense that:

• The associate gave consent to the conduct
• The conduct was not part of an official organizational event or sanctioned or approved by the organization
• The conduct was not done as a condition of membership in the organization

This policy is distributed annually to all executive officers (typically presidents and/or captains) of organizations that are known to engage in pre-membership initiation. Each officer, in turn, is responsible for communicating this policy to all members and associates and for ensuring that the entire organization strictly adheres to this policy. Executive officers (or members in positions of leadership) within the organization, group, or team who fail to report an act of hazing committed against another individual may be held accountable under §201(13) Hazing.

Organizations and their members should understand that not only is the organization responsible for preventing hazing in any form, but any and all members involved in any hazing violation are personally accountable for their own actions and may be subject to individual disciplinary action.

Students wishing to report incidents of alleged hazing are encouraged to submit a report on the student conduct & conflict resolution referral form online at https://www.LUC.edu/cura. Reports may be submitted anonymously, but anonymous reports are more difficult for the University to address.

All reports of hazing are taken seriously, and no one who makes a good faith report of hazing will suffer retaliation or reprisal from the University. Any act of retaliation taken against another in response to such good faith reporting of hazing is a serious violation subject to disciplinary action, (see §201(26) Retaliation). The privacy of all parties involved will be respected as much as possible, considering the need to conduct a thorough investigation and to take corrective action.

Hazing investigations vary depending on the nature of the reported incident, but often involve interviews and collection of other information, and usually result in a hearing. Following the investigation and adjudication (if applicable) of a hazing incident, effective corrective action will be taken to eliminate the hazing behavior and to reasonably ensure that it does not reoccur.

In accordance with H.R. 5646 (Stop Campus Hazing Act), the University will publish a “Campus Hazing Transparency Report” annually to list any organizations found responsible for violating the hazing policy §201(13). In addition to the public disclosure of the name of the organization, the following will be included: details of the violation, key date(s) of the incident, investigation, and findings. The report will be publicly accessible at https://www.LUC.edu/deanofstudents. In accordance with FERPA requirements, this report will not include personally identifiable information of individual students.

The Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA or H.R. 5646) is federal legislation signed into law in December 2024. The SCHA has three important aspects:

1. The addition of hazing to Clery reporting requirements and campuses’ Annual Security Report (ASR)
2. the requirement of campus-wide, research-based hazing prevention programs and policies
3. increased transparency regarding organizations that have violated campus hazing policy through the publication of a Campus Hazing Transparency Report.

In alignment with this law, Loyola publishes a list of recognized student organizations (RSO) that have been found responsible for violating the Hazing policy as defined in §201(13) of the Community Standards.

Statistics reported in the Campus Hazing Transparency Report may differ from those included in the Annual Security Report (ASR). Hazing statistics include incident referrals that meet the federal definition of hazing in Section 485(f)(6)(A) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C 1092(f)(6)(A)). The statistics reported in the ASR only include incidents within Clery geography and do not reflect actual findings of hazing, which are included in the Campus Hazing Transparency Report.  

The report below will be updated at a minimum of twice per year, but typically within 14 business days of the resolution date. The 2024-2025 report includes any findings of responsibility, effective July 1, 2025, for the year and reported no later than December 31st of the same year. The University will maintain the information on the website for seven years.

• 2024-2025
  • No findings to report

• 2025-2026
  • No findings to report