Boston College suspends swimming and diving program due to hazing

Boston College has indefinitely suspended its males’s and girls’s swimming and diving techniques over what it mentioned used to be hazing, the college introduced Wednesday.

The suspension comes after college directors “determined that hazing had occurred within the program,” the Boston College athletics division mentioned in a temporary statement.

“The University does not — and will not — tolerate hazing in any form,” the remark mentioned.

The topic can be investigated via the Office of the Dean of Students and “adjudicated fairly and impartially through the student conduct process,” the college mentioned.

The college didn’t supply any further main points at the alleged hazing incident.

ABC News reached out to the program’s head trainer and diving trainer for remark.

All scholars within the program will proceed to have get admission to to educational and clinical sources to be had to all Boston College student-athletes, the athletics division mentioned.

Any type of hazing is illegal via the college and Massachusetts state regulation, the Boston College guide notes.

Examples of hazing cited within the guide come with alcohol use, in addition to “personal servitude; sleep deprivation and restrictions on personal hygiene; yelling, swearing, and insulting new members/rookies; being forced to wear embarrassing or humiliating attire in public; consumption of vile substances or smearing of such on one’s skin; brandings; physical beatings; binge drinking and drinking games; sexual simulation and sexual assault.”