Hello Grogospeak,<br><br>As required by Massachusetts State Law and MIT's Association of Student Activities, please find below our official Anti-<span class="il">Hazing</span> Policy.<br>If you ever have any concerns or questions, please do contact either Clare (<a href="mailto:cbayley@mit.edu" target="_blank">cbayley@mit.edu</a>) or me (<a href="mailto:kmh2011@mit.edu" target="_blank">kmh2011@mit.edu</a>) and we will address the matter with the utmost confidentiality.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Ken [managing editor, tnq'11]<br>
<a href="http://technique.mit.edu/" target="_blank">http://technique.mit.edu/</a>
<br><br><b>MIT + ASA + TNQ Official Anti-<span class="il">Hazing</span> Policy</b><br><br clear="all"><i><b>Section 17</b>. <span><span class="il">Hazing</span></span>; organizing or participating; <span><span class="il">hazing</span></span> defined: Whoever is a principal organizer or<br>
participant in the crime of <span><span class="il">hazing</span></span>, as defined herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than <b>three thousand<br>
dollars</b> or by <b>imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than one year</b>, or <b>both such fine and imprisonment.</b><br><br>
The term <span><span class="il">hazing</span></span> as used in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen, shall mean <b>any conduct or method of<br>
initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or recklessly<br>
endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other person</b>. Such conduct shall include whipping, beating,<br>
branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the weather, forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug or<br>
other substance, or any other brutal treatment or forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the<br>
physical health or safety of any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or other person to<br>
extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation.<br><br>
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary, consent shall not be available as a defense to<br>
any prosecution under this action.<br><br>
<b>Section 18</b>. Failure to report <span><span class="il">hazing</span></span>: Whoever knows that another person is the victim of <span><span class="il">hazing</span></span> as defined in<br>
section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime shall, to the extent that such person can do so without danger<br>
or peril to himself or others, report such crime to an appropriate law enforcement official as soon as reasonably<br>
practicable. <b>Whoever fails to report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars</b>.<br><br>
<b>Section 19</b>. Copy of Secs. 17 to 19; issuance to students and student groups, teams and organizations; report:<br>
<b>Each institution of secondary education and each public and private institution of post secondary education shall<br>
issue to every student group</b>, student team or student organization which is part of such institution or is<br>
recognized by the institution or permitted by the institution to use its name or facilities or is known by the<br>
institution to exist as an unaffiliated student group, student team or student organization, <b>a copy of this section<br>
and sections seventeen and eighteen</b>; provided, however, that an institution's compliance with this section's<br>
requirements that an institution issue copies of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to unaffiliated<br>
student groups, teams or organizations shall not constitute evidence of the institution's recognition or endorsement<br>
of said unaffiliated student groups, teams or organizations.<br><br>
<b>Each such group, team or organization shall distribute a copy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to<br>
each of its members, plebes, pledges or applicants for membership</b>. It shall be the duty of each such group, team or<br>
organization, acting through its designated officer, to deliver annually, to the institution [in MIT's case the<br>
Office of Student Life Programs (with exception of varsity teams and club sports, who will deliver attested<br>
acknowledgements to the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation)] <b>an attested acknowledgement<br>
stating that such group, team or organization has received a copy of this section and said sections seventeen and<br>
eighteen, that each of its members, plebes, pledges, or applicants has received a copy of sections seventeen and<br>
eighteen, and that such group, team or organization understands and agrees to comply with the provisions of this<br>
section and sections seventeen and eighteen.</b><br><br>
Each institution of secondary education and each public or private institution of post secondary education shall, at<br>
least annually, before or at the start of enrollment, <b>deliver to each person who enrolls as a full time student in<br>
such institution a copy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen</b>.<br><br>
Each institution of secondary education and each public or private institution of post secondary education shall<br>
file, at least annually, a report with the board of higher education and in the case of secondary institutions, the<br>
board of education, <b>certifying that such institution has complied with its responsibility to inform student groups,<br>
teams or organizations and to notify each full time student enrolled by it of the provisions of this section and<br>
sections seventeen and eighteen</b> and also certifying that said <b>institution has adopted a disciplinary policy </b>with<br>
regard to the organizers and participants of <span><span class="il">hazing</span></span>, and that <b>such policy has been set forth with appropriate<br>
emphasis in the student handbook</b> or similar means of communicating the institution's policies to its students. The<br>
board of higher education and, in the case of secondary institutions, the board of education shall promulgate<br>
regulations governing the content and frequency of such reports, and shall forthwith report to the attorney general<br>
any such institution which fails to make such report.</i>