Cal State Northridge officials announced new policies requiring fraternities, sororities and other campus groups to submit plans in advance about membership recruitment and initiation activities to prevent hazing.
The Los Angeles Unified school police will stop giving citations for fighting, petty theft and other minor offenses, moving instead to refer students to counseling or other programs. The step back from punitive law enforcement actions reflects growing research that handling minor offenses with police actions does not necessarily make campuses safer. Those actions do often push struggling students to drop out and get in more serious trouble with law enforcement.