HEC/News: Anti-hazing bill seeks to curb violence

Anti-hazing bill seeks to curb violence
Measure would criminalize dangerous rites of initiation
The Herald (FL) April 19, 2005
By Bill Cotterell

"...a legislative panel voted unanimously Monday to make mistreatment of
new club members a serious criminal offense...

"[Rep. Adam] Hasner's bill (HB 193) outlaws hazing in high schools and
colleges. It defines the practice as 'pressuring or coercing the student
into violating state or federal law, any brutality of a physical nature
such as whipping, beating, branding, exposure to elements, forced
consumption of any food, liquor, drug or other substance' or other
activities likely to cause injury..."

Full article available at http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/11428758.htm.

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