APPENDIX
K
Hazing Prevention Policy
FOR NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Introduction
Northern
Arizona University promotes student organizations and the opportunities
they provide for students. The University respects the right
of each student organization to set its own criteria for membership
and to establish its own procedures for selecting members as
long as these policies are non-discriminatory and abide by University
and Board of Regents Policy. The University stands ready to
assist in any of these areas and/or in providing leadership
training for student organizations and their members in an effort
to make student organizations a more positive and enriching
experience for student members. Northern
Arizona University cannot and will not tolerate, however,
any act of hazing associated with registered student organizations,
groups of students affiliated with the university, or individual
students. Incidents defined as hazing by this policy are not
only violations of the
Student
Code of Conduct
but
are also violations of the Arizona Revised Statutes, Section
15-2301. Acts of hazing are antithetical to the idea of student
organizations on a college campus. Student organizations exist
for a variety of reasons including but not limited to enhancing
the educational pursuits of members, assisting with personal/social
growth and development, increasing leadership potential, creating
an atmosphere of belonging, providing services to others,
providing recreational opportunities, providing religious
and spiritual opportunities and the provision of a variety
of special interest concerns. The individual, the organization,
and the university suffer when organizations/groups create
and maintain hazing activities as part of their membership
procedures. These activities serve no constructive purpose
related to the reasons student organizations exist at the
University.
When you plan membership activities
for your organization and when you are a participant in new
membership orientation activities, we ask that you consider
whether or not the activity could be viewed as hazing according
to the definition stated below. It may be helpful for you
to consider the following questions regarding the organizational
activity in question.
- What is the purpose of the activity?
- How does the activity contribute
to the new member's respect and love for the organization
and/or him/herself?
- Would you be willing to implement
or participate in this activity in front of university administrators,
alumnae, your parents or the parents of the new member?
- Would you be proud to have photographs
of this activity in the campus or community newspaper?
- Would you be able to defend this
activity in a court of law? The following
The following information provides additional
clarification regarding Northern Arizona University's hazing
prevention policy including procedures for responding to hazing
violations: 1. Hazing is prohibited.
"Hazing" means any intentional, knowing or reckless
act committed by a student, whether individually or in concert
with other persons, against another student, and in which
subsection A and either subsection B or C of the following
apply: a. the act was committed in connection with an initiation
into, an affiliation with the maintenance of membership in
any organization that is affiliated with a university.
b. the act contributes to a substantial risk of potential
physical injury, mental harm or degradation or causes physical
injury, mental harm or personal degradation.
c. the act discourages the student from entering or remaining
registered in an educational institution, or may be reasonably
expected to cause the student to leave the
organization or institution rather than submit to the act.
Hazing includes, but is not limited to, paddling in any form,
physical or psychological shocks, late work sessions that
interfere with scholastic activities, advocating or promoting
alcohol or substance abuse, tests of endurance, submission
of members or prospective members to potentially dangerous
or hazardous circumstances or activities which have a
foreseeable
potential for resulting in personal injury, or any activity
which by its nature may have a potential to cause mental distress,
panic, human degradation or embarrassment.
2. Any solicitation
to engage in hazing is prohibited.
3. Aiding and abetting
another person who is engaged in hazing is prohibited.
4. It is not a defense
to a violation of this policy that the hazing victim consented
to or acquiesced in the hazing activity.
5. All students, faculty
and staff must take reasonable measures within the scope of
their individual authority to prevent violations of this policy.
Violations of this policy should be reported to the Office
of Student Life for investigation/ adjudication using a written
referral form available in the Office of Student Life. Written
referrals will be investigated by Student Life staff according
to the Student Disciplinary Procedures used for adjudicating
student conduct violations. (See the NAU Electronic Student
Handbook for a complete review of the Student Code of Conduct
and the Student Disciplinary Procedures, Appendix C).
6. Violations of this
policy or interference in an investigation under this policy
by students or student organizations are subject to sanctions
under the Student Code of Conduct. The Office of Student Life
is responsible for enforcing the Student Code of Conduct and
implementing the Student Disciplinary Procedures, Appendix
C). 7. Registered student
organizations, as well as their members, may be held collectively
and/or individually responsible for violations of the Student
Code of Conduct and/or Hazing Policy. The Office of Student
Life can take action according to the Code even though a student
organization and/or its governing body has already implemented
its own disciplinary process and/or sanctions. If it is determined
that a student organization, group or member did violate this
Hazing Policy or the Student Code of Conduct, the following
sanctions may apply:
1. suspension of the organization as a registered
student organization
2. loss of campus privileges for the student
organization
3. restitution for damages that may have
resulted from the incident (student organization and/or individual)
4. a statement of warning may be issued
(student organization and/or individual)
5. a probationary period may be implemented
(student organization and/or individual)
6. an individual may be suspended from the
university
7. an individual may be expelled from the
university
8. Any university
employee who knowingly permitted, authorized or condoned the
hazing activity is subject to disciplinary action by the university.
9. If Northern Arizona
University receives a report or complaint of hazing involving
physical injury, threats of physical injury, intimidation,
harassment or property damage, or other conduct that appears
to violate Arizona law, NAU will report the conduct incident
to the NAU Police Department.
10. This policy is
not intended to prohibit or sanction the following conduct:
a. Customary public athletic events, contests
or competitions that are sponsored by a university;
b. Any activity or conduct that furthers
the goal of a legitimate educational curriculum, a legitimate extracurricular program or legitimate military training program.
11. For the purpose
of this policy, a. "Organization" means an athletic
team, association, order, society, corps, cooperative, club,
student organization, fraternity, sorority or other similar
group that is affiliated with a university and whose membership
consists primarily of students enrolled at that university.
"Organization" includes a local chapter, unit or
other local division consisting primarily of students, regardless
of the nature of the membership of the larger public or private
organization. b. "Student" means any person
who is enrolled at a university, any person who has been promoted
or accepted for enrollment at a university or any person who
intends to enroll at or be promoted to an Arizona university
within the next twelve calendar months. The hazing prevention
policy of the university where a person has been accepted
for or promoted to enrollment, or where a person intends to
to enroll or be promoted to within the next twelve calendar
months, shall be the effective policy. A person who meets
the definition of a student for purposes of this paragraph
shall continue to be defined as a student for purposes of
this section until the person graduates, transfers, is promoted
or withdraws from the university.
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