{"id":287787,"date":"2026-09-17T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287787\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:10:10","slug":"breaking-lehigh-mens-swim-team-suspended-after-hazing-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287787\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Lehigh men\u2019s swim team suspended after hazing allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh University suspended all men\u2019s swim team-related activities pending hazing violations as of Sept. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having been reported my multiple swim news sites and confirmed by an individual with knowledge of the decision, the men\u2019s swim team activities are suspended while the investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaffairs.lehigh.edu\/hazing-prevention\/laws-policies#pa-hazing-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hazing policies<\/a> include any \u201cbehaviors that are based on a power imbalance between current and new members; may involve activities that ridicule, embarrass or humiliate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If allegations are confirmed, this will not be the first time the program has violated Lehigh\u2019s hazing policies, as the team was penalized in <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaffairs.lehigh.edu\/sites\/studentaffairs.lehigh.edu\/files\/offices\/hazing-prevention\/docs\/Act%2080%20of%202018%20Report%20%28August%202020_FINAL%29.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2020<\/a> for forcing team members to participate in early morning \u201cpunishment swims.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their season is scheduled to begin on Oct. 10 against Loyola at home.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh University suspended all men\u2019s swim team-related activities pending hazing violations as of Sept. 15.\u00a0 Having been reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2376,119728,295],"class_list":["post-287787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-mens-swimming-and-diving","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}