National Hazing Prevention Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Examples: Forced physical activity
2. Warning Sign: Weight-loss; exhaustion; or sudden changes in appetite, sleep habits, or appearance
3. Fact: More than 79% of NCAA athletes report coming to college with a prior hazing experience from high school or middle school.
4. Myth: Hazing is normalized in Greek Life
5. Example: Beatings, paddling, or other physical acts against new or potential members
6. Myth: As long as there’s no malicious intent, a little hazing should be O.K
7. Myth: Hazing is good for the greek community
8. Excuse: It’s difficult to determine whether or not a certain activity is hazing — it’s such a gray area sometimes.
9. Example: Humiliation of new or potential members
10. Myth: Hazing is no more than foolish pranks that sometimes go awry
11. Warning Sign: Secrecy, avoidance, or stress surrounding new member activities
12. Excuse: "Its Mandatory"
13. Example: Forced Tests and competitions
14. Fact: Two in five students say they are aware of hazing taking place on their school or campus
15. Myth: Hazing does not happen anymore
16. Warning Signs: Exhaustion
17. Fact: Both male and female students report a high level of hazing
18. Warning Sign: Sudden changes in behavior after joining an organization, club, or team
19. Fact: 82 percent of deaths from hazing involve alcohol.
20. Warning Signs: Drop in academics
21. Warning Sign: Desire to leave the organization, club, or team without giving any explanation
22. Fact: 36 percent of students say they would not report hazing primarily because "there's no one to tell,"
23. Excuse: "They want to do it, so it's okay"
24. Warning Sign: Anxiety and odd behavior
25. Example: Sleep depravation
26. Myth: If someone agrees to participate in an activity, it can’t be considered hazing
27. Excuse: "We do it to everyone"
28. Excuse: It build's character
29. Excuse: “it’s tradition…”
30. Myth: Hazing builds unity.
31. Fact:1.5 million high school students are hazed each year
32. Excuse: “People will get much worse in the real world anyway...”
33. Example: Forced ingestion of food, drinks, substances, etc.
34. Example: Forced activities for new recruits to ‘prove’ their worth to join
35. Excuse: "What happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors"
36. Example: Personal servitude
37. Warning Signs: Bruises
38. Fact: Nine out of ten students who have experienced hazing behavior in college do not consider themselves to have been hazed.
39. Fact: 55 percent of college students involved in clubs, teams and organizations experience hazing.
40. Fact: In 95 percent of cases where students were hazed, they did not report the events to campus officials
41. Warning Signs: Avoiding friends and family
42. Fact: A significant number of hazing incidents and deaths involve alcohol consumption
43. Warning Signs: Change in appearance.
44. Example: Forced or required consumption of alcohol
45. Example: Illegal activities such as requirement to steal local items as part of a scavenger hunt
46. Warning sign: New members leaving campus with brothers / sisters
47. Warning Sign: Unexplained injuries or illnesses
48. Excuse: “We’re not forcing anyone to join our club/group/team. If they don’t want to go through this, they don’t have to sign up/try out/join…”
49. Myth: Hazing is a problem for ONLY fraternities and sororities
50. Fact: Hazing can happen to anyone in any org / team/ club
51. Fact: Hazing occurs in middle schools, high schools and colleges
52. Excuse: "We all do it"