Hazing Violations and Statistics

Hazing Transparency Reports

The Stop Campus Hazing Act requires UWM to publish Campus Hazing Transparency Reports. This report is different from the Clery Act Annual Security Report. In the Hazing Transparency Report, UWM must summarize findings concerning any UWM recognized or established student organizations that are found to be in violation of hazing under UWS Ch. 17.

Those Transparency Reports are available here.

Note: If there are no Transparency Reports listed below, there have not been any hazing violations by any registered student organizations within any reporting period.

The Clery Act

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998 (Clery Act) and Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) requires that UWM collect crime statistics that were reported to local police agencies or campus security authorities for crimes that occurred:

1. On campus
2. In certain off-campus buildings owned or controlled by UWM
3. Public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus

For the purposes of the Clery Act statistics, hazing is defined by the Stop Campus Hazing Act. Note that this definition is different than what is defined under UWS Ch. 17.09(5).

The Stop Campus Hazing Act definition is the following:

Any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person (whether individually or in concert with other persons) against another person or persons regardless of the willingness of such other person or persons to participate, that –

• is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and
• causes or creates a risk, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the institution of higher education or the organization (such as the physical preparation necessary for participation in an athletic team), of physical or psychological injury … .

The Hazing Act provides a non-exhaustive list of examples of conduct that causes or creates such a risk, including:

• whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone’s body, or similar activity;
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances;
• causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
• any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
• any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law; and
• any activity that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law.