![Senator Cassidy introduces legislation to stop hazing on college campuses by requiring hazing incidents to be reported publicly](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2176/files/2019/02/Maxwell-Gruver.jpg)
LSU student Max Gruver who died after hazing incident 2017.
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy is co-sponsoring the Stop Campus Hazing Act to address violence on college campuses. The federal law would require college campuses to include hazing incidents in their annual crime report.
“As a parent you shouldn’t have to worry about the well-being of your child going off to a school, joining an organization with a history of hazing that you don’t know that history,” said Cassidy.
Cassidy referred to the hazing incident at LSU that led to the death of student Max Gruver in 2017. Steve Gruver, Max’s father said if the legislation had been enacted six years ago things would be much different.
“I know had the Stop Campus Hazing Act been around when my son was pledging, he would not have chosen the Phi Delta Thetas and this act would have saved my son’s life,” said Gruver.
The year before Max Gruver’s death, The Phi Delta Theta, fraternity was suspended for a hazing incident.
Cassidy said this bill is an important step in protecting the health and safety of students and calls for transparency among colleges and universities.
“If all of a sudden an organization has their hazing history published online and no student, no freshman is ever joining their organization, they will stop hazing,” said Cassidy.
The bill has the backing of the National Panhellenic Conference and the North American Interfraternity Conference.
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