Hazing Policy

Hazing is any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person (whether individually or in concert with other persons) against another person or persons, regardless of the willingness of such other person or persons to participate, that

1. is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and
2. causes or creates a risk, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the institution of higher education or the organization (such as the physical preparation necessary for participation in an athletic team), of physical or psychological injury, including:
   • any activity that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law.
   • whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone’s body, or similar activity.
   • causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity.
   • causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances.
   • causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts.
   • any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct.
   • any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law, and Hazing Policy

Hazing is 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.

A student organization is an organization at Clark University, such as a club, society, association, varsity or junior varsity athletic team, club sports team, fraternity, sorority, band, or student government, in which two or more of the members are students enrolled at Clark University, whether or not the organization is established or recognized by Clark University.

Clark University ​will maintain and publicly report findings of hazing violations by any student organization, athletic team, or living group. The report will include any violations of the code of conduct anti-hazing policies (Annual Security Report).

The report should include the following information:

• The name of the student organization.
• A general description of the violation that resulted in a finding of responsibility; and
• Related dates (the date of the alleged incident, the date of the initiation of the investigation, the date the investigation ended with a finding, and the date the institution provided notice to the organization of the finding).