Sunday swing dance canceled

[Ken T Takusagawa]

Because of the weather forecast, we are CANCELING the 
Sunday afternoon outdoors MIT Lindy Hop Society dance.

Sunday afternoon dances will return next year.

--ken

P.S.:

ANTI-HAZING LAW
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In accordance with Massachusetts law, all student groups are 
required to distribute a copy of these laws to their members 
(see Section 19).

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).

   THE GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
   Chapter 269: Section 17. Hazing; organizing or participating; hazing
   defined
   
   Section 17. 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 wilfully 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.


   Chapter 269: Section 18. Failure to report hazing
   
   Section 18. 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.


   Chapter 269: Section 19. Copy of Secs. 17 to 19; issuance to students
   and student groups, teams and organizations; report
   
   Section 19. 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 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 forthwith report to
   the attorney general any such institution which fails to make such
   report.


MIT Non-Discrimination Policy
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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.