The STOP Campus Hazing Act requires colleges and universities to routinely publish a Hazing Transparency Report that informs members of the campus community of any student club, organization or athletic team found responsible for engaging in acts of hazing after July 1, 2025.
The Hazing Transparency Report includes, if known, the name of the organization, the dates of the hazing behavior, investigation and adjudication timeline, as well as a description of the findings. Any reports of hazing that did not result in a finding of responsibility are not included.
The university will update this webpage as outcomes are finalized, and will share the transparency report and resources with the campus community twice a year.
For more information and to access the report, visit the Hazing Transparency Report website.
How to report hazing
Don’t be a bystander when it comes to hazing. You can file an Incident Report with the Office of Student Conduct or report hazing to any of the following:
- Office of Dean of Students at deanofstudents@oswego.edu
- Student Engagement and Leadership at student.engagement@oswego.edu
- University Police at 315-312-5555
SUNY Oswego will respect the privacy of reporters but cannot guarantee confidentiality for hazing reports. The information you provide to a non-confidential resource will be relayed only as necessary to investigate and/or seek a resolution and/or to comply with other appropriate university policies and procedures, and any federal, state, and/or local laws, rules and regulations. The university will limit the disclosure as much as possible, even if the institution determines that the request for confidentiality cannot be honored.
Offices and officials who are confidential resources will not report to law enforcement or university officials without a complainant/reporting party's permission, except for extreme circumstances, such as a health and/or safety emergency. SUNY Oswego offices that are considered confidential are as follows:
- Health Services
- Counseling Services
Statement on hazing
Student groups, organizations, and athletic teams are an integral component of campus life. At all times, participants in university programs and activities are expected to act in accordance with the Code of Conduct and treat others with respect.
Hazing can happen in any organization and is not limited to fraternities and sororities. In all forms, hazing is abusive, degrading, psychologically damaging, often life-threatening and has no place within the SUNY Oswego community. The university takes every report of hazing seriously and will investigate all complaints thoroughly and vigorously to ensure all students are treated with fairness and dignity.
Those found responsible for committing, soliciting, encouraging, directing, aiding or recklessly permitting hazing to occur will be subject to disciplinary action. Sanctions may range from educational outcomes to suspension or expulsion.
SUNY Oswego’s hazing policy
An individual student or group of students that intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes or creates an unreasonable risk of harm to another student as a requirement for initiation into, affiliation with or continued membership of a recognized or unrecognized student organization, regardless of whether a student willingly participates. This may apply but is not limited to Greek organizations, clubs, student government associations and athletic teams.
Prohibited behavior under this policy includes, but is not limited to:
- Any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
- Whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of harmful substance on someone’s body or any activity which has foreseeable potential for personal injury, imparts pain or causes mutilation or alteration to the body;
- Causing, coercing or otherwise depriving individuals of sleep, edible meals, personal hygiene, or exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, lockdowns, overcrowding rooms, tests of endurance, extreme calisthenics, leaving a person in a location without means of identification, communication or ability to return or other similar activity;
- Any activity for human degradation, public embarrassment or by its nature, has the potential to cause severe anxiety, distress or panic;
- 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 disrupts or interferes with an individual’s pursuit of academic endeavors;
- Any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, state 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, New York State or federal law.
In the case of students participating in a student organization unrecognized by the campus that contains two or more members that are students enrolled at the campus, such individual students may be subject to a charge or charges of hazing on an individual basis.
-- Submitted by the Office of Student Conduct