Glen Oaks Community College is committed to providing a safe environment in which all students have the right to belong to student organizations, including athletics, without undergoing hazing as a right of entry.  As such, it is the policy of the College that hazing is strictly prohibited.  Hazing can result in irrevocable harm to students, their families, and the College community.

No student organization or individual student shall conduct or condone hazing activities. Any individual responsible for hazing may be subject to disciplinary action, criminal prosecution and civil prosecution.

Definition of Hazing:

Any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person, whether individually or in concert with other people, against another person, and in which both of the following apply:

• The act was committed in connection with an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in any organization that is affiliated with the College; and
• The act contributes to a reasonable risk of potential physical injury, mental harm, or degradation; or causes physical injury, mental harm, or personal degradation.

Such actions and situations may include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing harmful substances on someone’s body, or similar activity;
2. Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;
3. Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances;
4. Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
5. Any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
6. Any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, or Federal law; and
7. Any activity that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, or Federal law