[AAA] Asian American Association Annual Anti-Hazing Information

[Brian Huang]

Hi faaam,


Every club has to send this out, so that you are aware of it.


Best,

Brian


All MIT student groups are required to follow the Massachusetts anti-hazing
law and the MIT Non-Discrimination policy.  The full texts of these
policies are copied below. They should also be distributed to any members
not receiving this email and any current or future pledges or applicants.

If you have any questions, concerns, or want to report questionable
behavior or violations of these policies, please email asa-president at mit.edu
(confidential, non-archived) and/or Leah Flynn (laflynn at mit.edu, Director
of the Student Activities Office).

Sincerely,

The ASA Executive Board

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Text of Anti-Hazing Law:

Section 17. Hazing; organizing or participating; hazing defined: Whoever is
a principal organizer or participant in the crime of hazing, as defined
herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars
or by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than one year, or
both such fine and imprisonment.

The term hazing as used in this section and in sections eighteen and
nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student
organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or
recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other
person. Such conduct shall include whipping, beating, branding, forced
calisthenics, exposure to the weather, forced consumption of any food,
liquor, beverage, drug or other substance, or any other brutal treatment or
forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical
health or safety of any such student or other person, or which subjects
such student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended
deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary,
consent shall not be available as a defense to any prosecution under this
action.

Section 18. Failure to report hazing: Whoever knows that another person is
the victim of hazing as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of
such crime shall, to the extent that such person can do so without danger
or peril to himself or others, report such crime to an appropriate law
enforcement official as soon as reasonably practicable. Whoever fails to
report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand
dollars.

Section 19. Copy of Secs. 17 to 19; issuance to students and student
groups, teams and organizations; report: Each institution of secondary
education and each public and private institution of post secondary
education shall issue to every student group, student team or student
organization which is part of such institution or is recognized by the
institution or permitted by the institution to use its name or facilities
or is known by the institution to exist as an unaffiliated student group,
student team or student organization, a copy of this section and sections
seventeen and eighteen; provided, however, that an institution's compliance
with this section's requirements that an institution issue copies of this
section and sections seventeen and eighteen to unaffiliated student groups,
teams or organizations shall not constitute evidence of the institution's
recognition or endorsement of said unaffiliated student groups, teams or
organizations.

Each such group, team or organization shall distribute a copy of this
section and sections seventeen and eighteen to each of its members, plebes,
pledges or applicants for membership. It shall be the duty of each such
group, team or organization, acting through its designated officer, to
deliver annually, to the institution [in MIT's case the Office of Student
Life Programs (with exception of varsity teams and club sports, who will
deliver attested acknowledgements to the Department of Athletics, Physical
Education and Recreation)] an attested acknowledgement stating that such
group, team or organization has received a copy of this section and said
sections seventeen and eighteen, that each of its members, plebes, pledges,
or applicants has received a copy of sections seventeen and eighteen, and
that such group, team or organization understands and agrees to comply with
the provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.

Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
institution of post secondary education shall, at least annually, before or
at the start of enrollment, deliver to each person who enrolls as a full
time student in such institution a copy of this section and sections
seventeen and eighteen.

Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
institution of post secondary education shall file, at least annually, a
report with the board of higher education and in the case of secondary
institutions, the board of education, certifying that such institution has
complied with its responsibility to inform student groups, teams or
organizations and to notify each full time student enrolled by it of the
provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen and also
certifying that said institution has adopted a disciplinary policy with
regard to the organizers and participants of hazing, and that such policy
has been set forth with appropriate emphasis in the student handbook or
similar means of communicating the institution's policies to its students.
The board of higher education and, in the case of secondary institutions,
the board of education shall promulgate regulations governing the content
and frequency of such reports, and shall forthwit!

h report to the attorney general any such institution which fails to make
such report.

Text of Non-Discrimination Policy:

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to the principle of
equal opportunity in education and employment. The Institute does not
discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic
information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin in the
administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, employment
policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other Institute administered
programs and activities, but may favor US citizens or residents in
admissions and financial aid.


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*Brian Huang*
MIT | Class of 2018
Department of Computer Science | Sloan School of Management
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