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The annual conference for Naspa -- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education runs March 8-12 in Boston. View the schedule.

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Past Naspa Coverage

Creating a 'Culture of Preparedness' (2008)
Colleges must empower their students to help prevent violent incidents on campuses and prepare them to respond during emergencies, experts say.

Do Guns Belong on Campus? (2008)
The solution to shooting incidents at colleges and universities is not more guns, public-safety experts argue.

New Demands on Student Affairs (2007)
The needs of an increasingly diverse student population are rapidly expanding the roles and responsibilities of student-affairs offices.

Millennials, Parents, and Liability (2006)
Modern students are skilled multitaskers who dream big, thrive on stress, and call their parents constantly.

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March 13, 2008

National Study Finds Widespread Hazing by Student Groups

Boston — More than half of college students who belong to campus organizations experience hazing, according to a national study presented on Tuesday at the Naspa conference here.

The culprits are not only fraternities, sororities, and athletics teams, but student groups of all kinds, says a report on the study, which was conducted by Elizabeth J. Allan and Mary Madden, both associate professors in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine at Orono.

For more, see The Chronicle’s News Blog.

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