Anti-hazing statement

Hazing is strictly prohibited.

No student organization or individual student shall conduct nor condone hazing activities. Any individual responsible for hazing may be subject to university disciplinary action, criminal prosecution and civil prosecution.

Hazing defined

Hazing includes, but is not limited to, an intentional, knowing, or reckless act by a person acting alone or acting with others that is directed against an individual and that the person knew or should have known endangers the physical health or safety of the individual, and that is done for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, participating in, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization (e.g. fraternity, sorority, club, service group, social group, athletic team).

Hazing includes any of the following that is done for such a purpose:

• Physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on the body, or similar activity.
• Physical activity, such as sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, or calisthenics that subjects the other person to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the physical health or safety of the individual.
• Activity involving consumption of a food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug, or other substance that subjects the individual to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the physical health or safety of the individual.
• Activity that induces, causes, or requires an individual to perform a duty or task that involves the commission of a crime or an act of hazing.

A claim that the individual against whom the hazing was directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing shall not be viewed as a mitigating factor or justification for hazing of any form.

Reporting

Campus community members are expected to promptly report any practice or action believed to be hazing to the WSU Police Department at 313-577-2222 or to the Dean of Students Office at 313-577-1010.