Editor’s note: This is the last in our series of regional snapshots examining campus responses to the new federal law requiring hazing transparency. Our series covers all 50 states and Washington, DC. Read: College hazing in Western states, New England, the Mountain West, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest.
The list of recent hazing violations at four Arizona State University fraternities reads like tactics from a covert military operation:
The punishment for each fraternity was nearly the same: a two-month suspension, no parties through spring 2027, conduct probation through spring 2029 (though Lambda Chi Alpha, which burned people with cigarettes, is only suspended until 2028). All four continue to recruit new members this fall.
That is a snapshot of hazing reported by one of the 24 colleges and universities across the four Southwest states that disclosed recent hazing incidents. A HazingInfo review of college websites in the region found 60 findings of hazing violations between July 2025 and August 2026.
That’s with just under half of the 118 campuses in the Southwest disclosing hazing incidents under a new federal law requiring hazing transparency. States included in our review are Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Texas had the highest number of reported hazing incidents, with 44. New Mexico had the highest number of campuses that don’t provide hazing incident statistics, with just 3 out of 10 schools publishing an updated Campus Hazing Transparency Report.
Nearly 20% of schools in the region provide no hazing information at all — no hazing policy, Campus Hazing Transparency Report, or method for reporting hazing.
Source: HazingInfo.org
Under federal law, every US college and university must publish a Campus Hazing Transparency Report on its website documenting hazing violations starting on July 1, 2025.
The law does not specifically require a report until there has been a formal finding of a hazing violation following an investigation. But advocates and prevention experts urge every campus to be fully transparent about hazing, whether there has been a formal finding or not.
The University of Arizona in Tucson reported four hazing incidents between July 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026. But that doesn’t capture the recent suspension of all fraternity activity amid a wave of misconduct investigations this fall.
Last month, campus leaders placed all 21 fraternities on a temporary activities suspension because the number of misconduct reports involving hazing, assault, drugs, and alcohol outstripped the university’s capacity to investigate them. All but five fraternities have since had those suspensions lifted.
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff reports one fraternity, Delta Chi, was suspended for hazing in 2024. The school provides no information about another fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, where Colin Daniel Martinez was killed by hazing in early 2026. His death is one of two nationwide in 2026 associated with hazing.
The offenders included a freshmen leadership organization, Freshmen Organized in Unity and Respect, that made new students drink mustard and simulate sex acts. Multiple Corps of Cadets units at Texas A&M were cited for hazing, including upperclassmen kicking cadets in the shins, hitting freshmen on the forehead with a belt buckle, and ordering cadets to slap each other in the face.
At Kappa Sigma fraternity, seven freshmen were hospitalized for exhaustion and dehydration following assigned manual labor tasks and extreme calisthenics, while two members of the Aggie Men’s Club were hospitalized in a separate incident following an extreme workout.
The Freshmen Leaders in Christ student organization had freshmen members participate a scavenger hunt with a list of activities to complete, including barking on the campus quad, jumping off a bridge into a pond, and carrying a large stuffed giraffe around campus.
Five hazing incidents at Baylor University resulted in official sanctions against the Baylor Chamber of Commerce organization (for isolation, restricted communication, and public humiliation); Beta Theta Pi fraternity (for sleep deprivation and intimidation); Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity (for psychological hazing and coercion); Omega Delta Phi multicultural fraternity (for sleep deprivation, excessive alcohol consumption, and pressure to perform demeaning acts); Pi Kappa Phi fraternity (for mandatory calisthenics, forced consumption of food, conspiracy, and cruelty to animals).
Other Texas campuses with multiple hazing incidents were: Texas Tech University (5 incidents); University of North Texas (4); Sam Houston State University (3); University of Texas at San Antonio and at Austin (3 each); Texas Christian University (2); Texas State University (2); University of Houston (2); University of Texas at Arlington (2).
Some 45% of Texas campuses do not provide an up-to-date Campus Hazing Transparency Report.
In Oklahoma, more than two-thirds of campuses do not provide up-to-date hazing incident records.
The University of Oklahoma reported the state’s highest number of hazing incidents, with four. That included incidents at Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, and Kappa Sigma fraternities and the school’s Hockey Club, which forced new players to engage in high-risk alcohol consumption and perform songs in various public settings throughout the season.
One hazing violation was reported by each of three institutions: Oklahoma State University, University of Central Oklahoma, and the University of Tulsa. At Tulsa, Kappa Sigma’s new and current members wrote hateful speech and imagery on their bodies, and senior members intentionally damaged the chapter house for incoming members to clean.
In New Mexico, only three of the state’s 10 institutions have an updated Campus Hazing Transparency Report. The only school reporting a hazing incident was the University of New Mexico, where Sigma Chi fraternity collaborated with two organizations to host a stay sober event before a University of New Mexico football game. During the event, incoming Sigma Chi members were assigned tasks such as distributing alcohol and clean-up. Current members drew sexually explicit and gender-insensitive drawings on the incoming members’ clothes and bodies.
Half of campuses in New Mexico provide no hazing information at all on their websites — no hazing policy, report, or online method for reporting hazing.