Allan, Madden Quoted in Articles on Hazing
University of Maine researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden who led a national study on student hazing were interviewed for articles on the topic. Madden, an education professor, was quoted in an article by The Guardian, titled “Student-athlete hazing victims may number 800,000 per year.” Madden spoke about some of the researchers’ findings including escalation in hazing incidents. “What we often see is that students like, sort of one-up the year before,” Madden said. “So, ‘Oh, we can we can haze them even worse than we were hazed.’” Allan, an associate professor of higher education leadership, was quoted in a post from the U.S. News & World Report blog “High School Notes.” She spoke about how hazing isn’t always recognized as a problem. “Some people think of it as a type of group bullying, but that can be misleading,” she said, adding hazing is about inclusion, while bullying is about exclusion. She defines hazing as, “any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses or endangers them, regardless of a person’s willingness to participate.” The study was also cited in a Huffington Post blog post titled “Hazing, violence and the culture of high school athletics: What can be done?”