MANILA, Philippines - The Senate committee on public order is studying the possibility of crafting a new law against hazing, but is not inclined to ban it totally.Sen. Gregorio Honasan II, the committee's chairman, said the new law would define hazing more clearly and set stronger rules to regulate it. He acknowledged
weaknesses in Republic Act 8049, the country's 7-year-old anti-hazing law.
But the senator believes banning hazing would be "too drastic a move," saying it is not limited to physical violence. He said not all initiation rites are necessarily violent and harmful.
"What we want to do here is to calibrate [the law]. So we proceed carefully, slowly but surely so that the effects would be long-term," he told reporters on Wednesday after a hearing on hazing.
Wednesday's investigation was prompted by the death of San Beda College law student Marc Andrei Marcos, a hazing victim.
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