[Grogospeak] TNQ + ASA Anti-Hazing Policy

[Ken M. Haggerty]

Hello Grogospeak,

As required by Massachusetts State Law and MIT's Association of Student
Activities, please find below our official Anti-Hazing Policy.
If you ever have any concerns or questions, please do contact either Clare (
cbayley at mit.edu) or me (kmh2011 at mit.edu) and we will address the matter with
the utmost confidentiality.

Thanks,
Ken [managing editor, tnq'11]
http://technique.mit.edu/

*MIT + ASA + TNQ Official Anti-Hazing Policy*

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