BATON ROUGE -- According to LSU, a law that passed in 2024 is making it tougher for universities to punish students and student organizations for hazing, claiming it's given them very little power to do so.

The law's author, Representative Dixon McMakin (R-Baton Rouge), says he was disappointed by the comments, saying that universities across the state helped them write the bill.

"The goal of that bill was to increase the standard that universities had to use when punishing their students. Right now, what I saw across universities, across our state was they really had no evidence, no proof of anything, and were punishing the students, so that law was built in to protect students vs overzealous universities and university officials," McMakin said.

Last year, McMakin helped push through t

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