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BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE

SEVENTEENTH CONGRES:
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO. _256

Introduced by Rep. Winston Winnie" Castelo

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

{mv light of recent pronouncements of Malacanang to the Benilde hazing suspects to face the full
force of the law on the one hand and the resolve of De La Salle ~ College of Saint Benilde to
launch an anti-hazing drive or so-called ‘Break-away from tradition’ advocacy for the death of
one of its students due to alleged jraternity vioience or hazing on the other, it becomes
incumbent upon policymakers to think of immediate and effective solution to address this never
ending culture or hazing behavior in many campus colleges or universities,

Sadly, what a research study examining hazing beliefs, behaviors and attitudes in college
students only found that while hazing occurs on campus, these hazing behaviors are not
identified by the students as hazing activities. In fact, 90% of students who identify having
‘experienced hazing behavior or activity do not identify that they have experienced hazing.

‘And yet, hazing as an activity has been proven to be detrimental for all parties involved
including the students who are subjects of hazing, the students who perpetrate it and the
institution overall. Besides, it can have lasting effects on the physical and psychological well-
being of students if not as a leading cause of campus deaths and offen result in liability
concerns for the institution,

True enough, hazing practices, used as rites of passage on college campuses, date back to the
seventeenth century and were often used as methods for upper-class (older) students to
intimidate or punish lower-class (younger) students. It is high time to apply the brakes for this
persistently recurring cultural phenomenon and it is the intent of this bill to put an immediate and
effective slop to this cite of passage, initiation, and class rivalry. Hazing deatlis cannui aid
should not be a commonplace in the Philippine university landscape.

tn this proposed measure, the CHED is mandated to come up with the fo!
action, namely: 1) provide a clear and single definition of hazing, 2) identify those forms of
hazing that students are most likely to encounter in their organization, and 3) clumping of
activi! ing those found to be acceptable end appropriate and those that would be
considered hazing. This approach implies that more education needs to occur before students
come to campus in order to make them aware of the dangers they may encounter.

in other words, CHED should be able to impose upon colleges or universities what the
jon perceives as hazing and prescribe relevant rules, regulations, and guidelines for all



colleges or universities under its supervision and control. It can issue a common set of
reference on what activities could be endorsed and what could not be as they are tantamount to
be bordering on hazing,

For example, the following items could be fisted down in a particular college or university
Student Handbook as constitutive of hazing and therefore not sanctioned by sald college or
university, the violation of which should be meted stringent disciplinary punishment, namely:

4, Forced participation in a drinking game

2. Forced association with certain people and not others

3. Sleep Deprivation

4, Drink large amounts of a non-alcoholic beverage (e.g. water)

5, Be yelled at, screamed at, or cursed at by other members

6. Any form of humiliation or degrading behavior

7. Forced or excessive physical activity

8. House duties

9. Forced to perform sex acts

10. Garrying of tems not associated with your daily routine

11. Consumption of food items not part of your regular diet

12, Forced singing or chanting

13. Personal Serviiude (i.e. retrieving meats, cleaning apartments, driving)
14, Locked in or restricted to a room or basement of a house or building against your will
16. Physically punched, slapped, struck, kicked or beaten in any way

46. Study Hours

17. Drink large amounts of alcohol to the point of getting sick or passing out
18. Being awoken in the middie of the night

49. Forced consumption of alcoho!

20. Dress Codes
21. Collecting active members signatures through the process of interviews
22. Paddling

23. Wearing inappropriate apparel or costumes

Nothing in this humble measure stops the CHED or its concerns
from revising this hierarchy lisVmap when newer developments emei
constitutive of hazing behavior.

college or university
in the campus scene

The immediate passage of this modest measure is prayed for.



Republic of the Phifippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

2560

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Rep. Winston “Winnie” Castelo

AN ACT
UNILATERALLY MANDATING COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION TO DEFINE
CAMPUS HAZING, ENUMERATE FORMS OF HAZING, AND DISSEMINATE THROUGH
PERTINENT CIRCULAR ACTIVITIES THAT COULD BE ENDORSED IN ALL COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES AS APPROPRIATE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines
in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the ‘Agency-Based Hierarchy Map Against

Campus Hazing of 2046"

SEC. 2. The Commission on Higher Education shall be the Office of Primary
Resp provide 7 definition of campus hazing, enumerate through 3
hierarchy listvariable map the forms of hazing, and clump activities that it deems acceptable
against those it deems inappropriate relative to hazing behavior.

Under this Act, CHED is hereby mandated to issue rules, regulations, and guidelines
through appropriate circular for compliance by all colleges or universities within its supervision
and control.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act stops the CHED and its agency-based approach against
hazing from issuing new items in the hierarchy listVvariable map whenever new developments
‘emerge in the campus landscape or when contingencies so demand.

SEC. 4. The CHED therefore shall hold concerned colleges or universities liable in
accordance with existing laws for student deaths or injuries resulting from hazing, its variant
forms, and other similar otherwise inappropriate activities not endorsed by CHED.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval and its publication in at least two (2)
newspapers of general circulation

Approved,