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