Hazing Suspensions to Stay on Records

Two Andover High students involved with the hazing incident that occurred over the summer attempted to strip their records of three-day suspensions, according to the Eagle Tribune.

The two freshman were among five students that were punished with three-day suspensions for their roles as bystanders in the event. The two and their families filed an injunction in Lawrence Superior Court to have the suspensions removed from their record.

Two upperclassman students were expelled from Andover High School for their involvement in the hazing incident, in which two younger members of the boys basketball team were forced to play a sexually explicit game at a basketball camp over the summer.

Tuesday, a Lawrence Superior Court judged ruled that the three-day suspensions will be kept on their records. The students' attorney was arguing that the students were just bystanders at the disturbing event and attempted to comfort the vicitms after the fact, the Tribune said.

The attorney for the school argued that the hazing policy "loses its teeth" if students can just go to court and get the punishments overturned.

The court records indicate that the victims were forced to play one of three different sexually explicit games. They were also hazed in a variety of other ways.