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What is Hazing?

Hazing is serious.  So serious that most states, including Virginia, have enacted laws making hazing illegal.  Click here to learn more about Virginia’s Hazing Law. What is hazing? According to the website www.hazingprevention.org, hazing is defined as any action taken or situation created intentionally:     that causes embarrassment, harassment or ridicule,     risks emotional and/or…

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Hazing in Virginia

Virginia, like most states, has a Hazing Law which makes hazing at any school, college or university against the law. Teasing that was considered an all-in-good-fun rite of passage decades ago is now known to be hazing — dangerous and illegal. Section 18.2-56 of the Code of Virginia provides the following: “It shall be unlawful…

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