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New hazing regulations; nothing on abusive coaching

 I posted on the Title IX Blog my 2025 intention to blog more; a goal that will be facilitated by shorter (pithier?) posts. I have let go of trying to make deeply profound and impactful posts all the time--since that actually prevented me from posting most of the time--and will shift to more frequent posts that are comments and observations.  That intention applies to After Atalanta as well, so here goes. In this moment of downtime I have been trying to get through all the tabs of things I absolutely must read before my computer decides to automatically restart itself.  I did not absolutely need to read about the Stop Campus Hazing Act which requires changes that incidents of hazing be included Clery Act-mandated reporting. (It's possible I already thought this was happening in fact.) But when reading about it, I did get to thinking about standards of risk and reasonableness.  A thorough definition of hazing was provided, including this second part that the offend...