Campus Hazing Transparency Report

Last Updated October 1, 2025

In accordance with the Stop Campus Hazing Act, the University of Arizona provides this report of past hazing misconduct involving student clubs and organizations. The information in this report includes: the name of the student organization, a general description of the violation that resulted in a finding of responsibility, and key dates including when the incident was alleged to have occurred, when the investigation of the incident was initiated, when the investigated ended with a finding that a hazing violation occurred, and when the university provided notice to the student organization. 

This report is updated biannually. 

Additional information about the University of Arizona's Hazing Policy is available online on the University Policies webpage.

The Definition of Hazing

According to the Higher Education Act of 1965, hazing means 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 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. 

The Definition of Student Organization

A student organization is defined as an organization at an institution of higher education (such as a club, society, association, varsity or junior varsity athletic team, club sports team, fraternity, sorority, band, or student government) in which two or more of the members are students enrolled at the institution of higher education, whether or not the organization is established or recognized by the institution. 

For the purposes of the Campus Hazing and Transparency Report, only organizations that are established or recognized by the University of Arizona that have been found to be in violation of the university's standards of conduct related to hazing are included in this report. 

Arizona Anti-Hazing Law

The State of Arizona prohibits hazing as defined by A.R.S. 13-1215, also known as "Jack's Law".

A.R.S. 13-1215. Hazing; classification; definition

A. A person commits hazing by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly, for the purpose of preinitiation activities, pledging, initiating, holding office, admitting or affiliating a minor or student into or with an organization or for the purpose of continuing, reinstating or enhancing a minor's or student's membership or status in an organization, causes, coerces or forces a minor or student to engage in or endure any of the following:

1. Sexual humiliation or brutality, including forced nudity or an act of sexual penetration, or both.
2. Conduct or conditions, including physical or psychological tactics, that are reasonably calculated to cause severe mental distress to the minor or student, including activities that are reasonably calculated to cause the minor or student to harm themselves or others.
3. The consumption of any food, nonalcoholic liquid, alcoholic liquid, drug or other substance that poses a substantial risk of death, physical injury or emotional harm.
4. An act of restraint, confinement in a small space or significant sleep deprivation.
5. Conduct or conditions that violate a federal or state criminal law and that pose a substantial risk of death or physical injury.
6. Physical brutality or any other conduct or conditions that pose a substantial risk of death or physical injury, including whipping, beating, paddling, branding, electric shocking, placing harmful substances on the body, excessive exercise or calisthenics or unhealthy exposure to the elements.

B. This section does not apply to reasonable and customary athletic, law enforcement or military training, contests, competitions or events.

C. A person may not be charged with or prosecuted for hazing or for a crime arising out of hazing if the evidence for the violation was gained solely as a result of either of the following:

1. The person transported the minor or student who was experiencing a medical emergency to a law enforcement agency, campus security office or health care facility.
2. The person, promptly and in good faith, reported the medical event caused by the hazing to a law enforcement officer, 911 or E911 service, campus security officer or emergency services personnel and the person reasonably believed that the minor or student needed immediate medical attention that was necessary to prevent the death of or serious physical injury to the minor or student.  This paragraph applies only to a person to whom all of the following apply:

• If physically capable, the person provided the person's name and the location of the minor or student who was in need of medical attention.
• The person remained with the minor or student until a law enforcement officer, campus security officer or emergency services personnel arrived.
• The person cooperated with law enforcement, campus security or emergency services personnel.

D. Subsection C of this section does not do any of the following:

1. Prohibit charging or prosecuting a person for a violation of this section if law enforcement obtains evidence of the violation before or independent of the person's act of seeking or obtaining medical assistance pursuant to subsection C of this section.
2. Prohibit the admissibility of evidence in connection with an investigation and prosecution for any other crime that is not prohibited by subsection C of this section.
3. Prohibit the admissibility of evidence in connection with the investigation and prosecution of a violation of this section against another person who is not immune from prosecution pursuant to subsection C of this section.

E. It is not a defense to hazing if either of the following applies:

1. The victim or person against whom the hazing was directed, acquiesced or consented, whether implied or expressed, to the conduct.
2. The conduct was sanctioned or approved by the organization or the educational institution or the conduct was traditional and customary, or both.

F. Hazing is a class 1 misdemeanor, except that if the hazing results in a person's death it is a class 4 felony.

G. For the purposes of this section, "organization" means any official fraternity, sorority, association, corporation, order, society, corps, cooperative, club, service group, social group, band, spirit group, athletic team or similar group whose members are primarily students at, or former students of, a high school or postsecondary institution.

A.R.S. 13-1216. Hazing planning or organizing; classification

A. A person commits hazing planning or organizing by doing any of the following:

1. With the intent to promote or aid the commission of hazing, the person agrees with one or more persons that at least one of them or another person will engage in hazing and one of the parties commits an overt act in furtherance of hazing.
2. Intentionally or knowingly engages in conduct that would constitute hazing if the attendant circumstances were as the person believes them to be.
3. Intentionally or knowingly does anything that, under the circumstances as the person believes them to be, is any step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in committing hazing.
4. Intentionally or knowingly engages in conduct that is intended to aid another to commit hazing, although the hazing is not committed or attempted by the other person, if the person's conduct would establish the person's complicity under chapter 3 of this title and the hazing was committed or attempted by the other person.

B. A person may not be charged with or prosecuted for a violation of this section if the person, in writing, transmits to the others involved in the hazing or hazing planning or organizing a complete and voluntary renunciation of the person's criminal intent or takes active steps to thwart the planned hazing from occurring.

C. A violation of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.

The Annual Security & Fire Safety Report

Information about the University of Arizona's hazing policy, prevention programming, and annual statistics on hazing are available in the University of Arizona's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (ASR). Hazing statistics include incident reports that meet the federal definition of hazing in the Higher Education Act of 1965 defined above for all student organizations. Such statistics do not reflect actual findings of hazing behavior, which are included here in the Campus Hazing Transparency Report.

2025-2026 Academic Year