If you feel you are being hazed at Penn State Altoona, or you’d like to report suspected hazing of a friend, please contact the Center for Student and Civic Engagement (126 Slep), Campus Police, or file a Care and Concern report. Please note that Penn State Altoona wishes to foster a healthy co-curricular environment for our students. Hazing has no place in that vision.

Visit the Center for Student and Civic Engagement page for more resources.

The university defines Hazing as,

any action or situation that recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student or that willfully destroys or removes public or private property for the purpose of initiation or admission into or affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in, any registered student organization.

Hazing includes, but is not limited to,

any brutality of a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the elements, forced consumption of any food, liquor, drug, or other substance or any other forced physical activity that could adversely affect the physical health and safety of the individual to extreme mental stress, such as sleep deprivation, forced exclusion from social contact, forced conduct that could result in extreme embarrassment, or any other forced activity that could adversely affect the mental health or dignity of the individual, or any willful destruction or removal of public or private property.

Any activities as described in this definition upon which the initiation or admission into or affiliation with or continued membership in a registered student organization is directly or indirectly conditioned shall be presumed to be “forced” activity, the willingness of an individual to participate in such activity notwithstanding. Any registered student organization, group, team, etc. that commits hazing is subject to disciplinary action.